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Writer:
Stewart Stern (written by)
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Release Date:
30 December 1957 (Sweden) more
Plot:
This documentary, which was undertaken soon after James Dean's death, looks at Dean's life through the use of still photographs with narration... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
It's a documentary about us; Dean was Altman's opportunity to make it. more

Cast

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Martin Gabel ... Narrator (voice)
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James Dean ... Himself ('East of Eden' screen test footage) (archive footage)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
81 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl
Filming Locations:
Fairmount, Indiana, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The opening title sequence was created by Maurice Binder, who went on to greater fame as the man behind the iconic titles to the James Bond movies. more
Movie Connections:
References The Violent Men (1955) more
Soundtrack:
Let me be loved more

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
It's a documentary about us; Dean was Altman's opportunity to make it., 16 September 2004
Author: housebluehill from new yor, new york

I watched the movie because Robert Altman directed it, but I'd assumed it was going to be a straight forward documentary of Dean's life. Then about half way through it something didn't feel right. The people being interviewed spoke like they were on automatic pilot and the childhood photographs chosen for the movie had the quality of a spoof. I watched it a second time and realized it was Altman's documentary of the American Celebrity Cult, not James Dean. Our devotion to movie actors was reaching a new zenith in the 1950's and the life and death of Dean was a timely example of it. It's a movie about us in the same way Nashville is, or A Wedding, or Short Cuts.

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