Rebel Without a Cause

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Rebel Without A Cause, 1955.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Rebel Without A Cause, 1955.

TCM's new Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Rebel Without A Cause, 1955.

Getting ready for their "chickie-run," Jim (James Dean) and Buzz (Corey Allen) converse, ebullient Judy (Natalie Wood) cheering both on, in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without A Cause, 1955.

New in town, Intoxicated teen Jim (James Dean) with his parents (Jim Backus, Ann Doran), summoned to the jail from a party, juvenile counselor Framek (Edward Platt) and a hard wooden desk, early in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without A Cause, 1955.

Jim (James Dean) conning his parents (Ann Doran, Jim Backus) then off for the first day of school in their new town, meeting Judy (Natalie Wood) whom he's seen at the police station, in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without A Cause, 1955.

Director Nicholas Ray's gaudy scene of paternal inadequacy, as Jim (James Dean), who's been challenged to a death-defying car race, seeks advice from his aproned father (Jim Backus), in Rebel Without A Cause, 1955.

Sydney Pollack on the changes in movie actors and the way they're seen in this out-take from TCM's Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence.

New kid Jim (James Dean), shadowed by worshipful Plato (Sal Mineo), is taunted into a "game" with switchblades by Buzz (Corey Allen, with Natalie Wood, Dennis Hopper, Nick Adams in his posse), shot outside the Griffith Park Observatory, in Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without A Cause, 1955.

An alienated teenager has trouble finding his place in society in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) starring James Dean.