Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama
Release Year: 1955
Country: USA
Runtime: 115
Rating: 2.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Elia Kazan
Sound: Mono, 4-Track Stereo
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Writing by: John Steinbeck - (novel "East of Eden")
Paul Osborn - (screenplay)

Produced by: Elia Kazan - producer

Cast: Julie Harris - Abra
James Dean - Cal Trask
Raymond Massey - Adam Trask
Burl Ives - Sam the Sheriff
Richard Davalos - Aron Trask
Jo Van Fleet - Kate
Albert Dekker - Will Hamilton
Lois Smith - Anne
Harold Gordon - Gustav Albrecht
Nick Dennis - Rantani
Abdullah Abbas - Carnival Townsman (uncredited)

Music: Leonard Rosenman
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Plot Outline: In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming…
Plot: In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to estranged mother.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Thanks to the citizens of Richmond and Staunton, Virginia

Goofs: We know about 6 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: In one scene, a band plays “Avalon”. The film is set in 1917. “Avalon” was not published until 1920.

Trivia: There are 14 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Director Elia Kazan got James Dean drunk before filming the rooftop scene between Cal and Abra.
• James Dean and Paul Newman screen tested together for the parts of rival brothers for this movie.
• James Dean would provoke Raymond Massey off-camera so that the elder actor would hate him and he could get into character easier.






































Tags: Abbas - Carnival Townsman, Abdullah Abbas, Abra, Adam, Adam Trask, Albert Dekker, Aron Trask, Cal Trask, Dean - Cal Trask, Gordon - Gustav Albrecht, Harold Gordon, James Dean, Jo Van Fleet, John Steinbeck, Julie Harris, Leonard Rosenman, Lois Smith, Nick Dennis, Paul Newman, Paul Osborn, Raymond Massey, Richard Davalos, Staunton, United States, Virginia