East of Eden [VHS]
by Elia Kazan
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Actor: Burl Ives, James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Richard DavalosDirector: Elia Kazan
Cinematographer: Ted D. McCord
Producer: Elia Kazan
Editor: Owen Marks
Writer: John Steinbeck
Writer: Paul Osborn
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 115 minutes
Release Date: 1994-12-09
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of East of Eden [VHS]
Movie Review: Can be used in American history classes, too!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is an excellent learning tool for any modern-US History class learning about America's involvement in World War I. The scences right after Cal gets the money from his mother to start growing soy beans for the war effort up to the small anti-German riot are so spot on. Students are transported to the small CA town of Salinas as it prepares to send its young men off to war. The parade, the propaganda, the draft board, the news headlines, anti-German sentiment, and war profitering are all covered. One of the best lines is during the parade when Cal says to Aaron: "Your own Wodrow Wilson's gonna' make the world safe for democracy." GREAT!Movie Review: Good character study
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
This adaptation of the second half of Steinbeck's epic novel isn't a great piece of storytelling but it succeeds in being interesting because setting the method acting James Dean against old-school Raymond Massey (who genuinely disliked the young Dean) electrifies their scenes together, generating enough tension to keep the viewer engaged despite the less impressive secondary players and plot.
3/4
Movie Review: James Dean was wonderful but the film was disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I've lately been reading great novels of the twentieth century and I'd just finished John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Certainly Steinbeck's best, the novel expands on the Biblical story of Cain and Abel through three generations of a family, more true to the Biblical text than most preachers ever could be, and philosophically ahead of its time. But this movie version is disappointing. The script was clearly written to showcase the promising young actor James Dean stereotyped in the "what's happening to our teenagers" 50's angst. The script obliterated Steinbeck's story line, cut out the Greek Chorus-like main character of the novel- the Chinese manservant Lee- and tried to focus a multi-generational theme into a few months of a wayward teen's life. The film is only a 'classic' because Dean was superb and he died so young. I highly recommend the 1981 mini-series TV film version of the story over the 50's 'classic.' Movie Review: East of Eden
Summary: 5 Stars
Well worth purchasing this classic. The information dtata on the film very interesting. Buy it and enjoy. Movie Review: Nothing to write home about.
Summary: 3 Stars
It was o.k. I guess. A James Dean fanatic might like it. A Steinbeck fanatic will hate it.
***Not Dean's Best***
Summary of East of Eden [VHS]
East of Eden is an acknowledged classic, and the starring debut of James Dean lifts it to legendary status. John Steinbeck's novel gave director Elia Kazan a perfect Cain-and-Abel showcase for Dean's iconic screen persona, casting the brooding star as Cal, the younger of two brothers vying for the love of their Bible-thumping father (Raymond Massey) in Monterey, California, at the dawn of World War I. Massey is a lettuce farmer, striving for market domination with an ill-fated refrigeration scheme. Having discovered that his presumed-dead mother (Oscar? winner Jo Van Fleet) is a brothel owner in nearby Salinas, Cal convinces her to finance an investment that will restore his father's lost fortune, but neither money nor the tenderness of his brother's fianc?e (Julie Harris) can assuage Cal's anguished need for paternal acceptance that comes nearly too late. Kazan's oblique camera angles and Dean's tortured emoting may seem extreme by latter-day standards, but their theatrics make East of Eden a timeless tale of family secrets and hard-won affection. --Jeff ShannonGeneration Gap Video
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