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List Price: $19.98Price: $7.76 You Save: $12.22 (61%)
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
Fabric Type: 9786300267862
Graphics Memory Size: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 6300267865
Maximum Color Depth: Warner Home Video
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal Language
Metal Type: Warner Home Video
Publisher: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Warner Home Video
Total Parallel Ports: December 09, 1994
Total S Video Out Ports: 115 minutes
Warner Home Video
April 10, 1955
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
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 fiancée (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 Shannon
Average Rating: 
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This milestone of a film concerns truth and redemption, and the titanic clash between respectability and passion. It is chillingly stark, shocking, and brutal at times. It is also tragic and moving, in no small part because the rising young star James Dean would not live long past his riveting performance. In addition to its other qualities, the movie is authentic; it is true to life. East of Eden can be summed up in two words---irreconcilable differences.
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I highly recommend this product. It is a great movie, great cast and stands the test of time. This is one of my favorite movies.
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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 ... Read More
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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
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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 ... Read More
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