Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

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Jim Stark: I didn't chicken. You saw where I jumped. What did I have to do, kill myself?

Jim Stark: You can wake up now, the universe has ended.

Jim Stark: Get lost.
Ray Fremick: Hang loose, boy. I'm warning you.
Jim Stark: Wash up and go home.

Plato: If only you coulda been my dad. We could have breakfast in the morning.

Jim Stark: You know something? You read too many comic books.

Buzz Gunderson: You know something? I like you.
Jim Stark: Why do we do this?
Buzz Gunderson: You've gotta do something. Don't you?

Jim Stark: I woke up this morning, you know... and the sun was shining, and it was nice, and all that type of stuff. And the first thing, I saw you, and, uh, I said, "Boy, this is gonna be one terrific day, so you better live it up, because tomorrow you'll be nothing." You see? And I almost was.

Buzz Gunderson: Oh he's real abstract. He's hm, he's different.
Jim Stark: That's right. That's right. I'm cute too.

Jim Stark: Hey they forgot to wind the sundial.

Jim Stark: I don't think I want anything, I'm nervous.
Frank Stark: My first day of school, I was so nervous, Mother made me eat so much, I couldn't swallow until recess.

Jim Stark: I'll bet you'd go to a hanging.
Plato: I guess it's just my morbid personality.

Jim Stark: If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?

Continuity mistake: In the Police Station at the beginning of the film James Dean takes off his flecked jacket to reveal his spectacle case in his top pocket. As his character does not wear glasses the offending case is removed in the next scene.

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Trivia: At the very end of the film the camera is zooming out with the observatory in the middle of the screen. Right before the credits begin, a man in a brown suit carrying a briefcase walks up to the observatory. This man is Nicholas Ray, the director of Rebel Without A Cause.

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