John Steinbeck's East of Eden [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; screenplay by Paul Osborn ; directed by Elia Kazan.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 68322 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Summary language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2005, c1954.Edition: Widescreen format; two-disc special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1419804960
- East of Eden
- Director of photography, Ted McCord ; film editor, Owen Marks ; music by Leonard Rosenman.
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, 1955 (Jo Van Fleet)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This truncated screen version of John Steinbeck's best-seller was the first starring vehicle for explosive 1950s screen personality James Dean, who plays Cal Trask, the "bad" son of taciturn Salinas valley lettuce farmer Adam Trask (Raymond Massey). Although he means well, Cal can't stay out of trouble, nor is he able to match the esteem in which his father holds his "good" brother Aron (Richard Davalos). Only Aron's girlfriend Abra (Julie Harris) and kindly old sheriff Sam Burl Ives) can see the essential goodness in the troublesome Cal. When Adam invests in a chancy and wholly unsuccessful method of shipping his crops east, his wealth plummets. In an effort to save the business, Cal obtains money from his estranged mother (the proprietor of a whorehouse) and invests it in a risky new bean crop. The gamble pays off (thanks in no small part to the war), but Adam refuses to take the money from Cal, and the resultant quarrel causes Adam to have a stroke. Released the same year as Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden provided Dean with his first Oscar nomination, for Best Actor. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the novel: East of Eden / by John Steinbeck.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.
Special features: commentary by Richard Schickel (disc one); 50th-anniversary documentary East of Eden: art in search of life; vintage documentary Forever James Dean; additional scenes; screen tests; wardrobe, costume and production design tests; 1955 premiere footage.
Director of photography, Ted McCord ; film editor, Owen Marks ; music by Leonard Rosenman.
Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Dekker, Lois Smith Harold Gordon, Nick Dennis.
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD; Dolby digital surround 5.1 in English; Dolby digital stereo. in French; region 1.
Closed-captioned.
Soundtrack in English or French; subtitles in English, French or Spanish.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, 1955 (Jo Van Fleet)