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Following on the heels of East of Eden, the Brattle's showing this week is the second in the trilogy of James Dean's acting epics, Rebel Without a Cause*. Originally released shortly after Dean's untimely death four years ago this movie, more than any other, established him as the acting idol and representative of an entire generation...
Colonel Carter is still stumped about how to get autographs of Communist leaders. His copy of the Aug. 1, 1955 cover, with the Big Four of that time-Eisenhower, Eden, Faure and Bulganin-has been signed by the first three men. But, with that prize collection of signatures on it, Colonel Carter doesn't dare send it to Bulganin. Other issues sent behind the Iron Curtain for autographs have not been returned...
...Kassem, the armed camp that is Baghdad's Defense Ministry was a faithful reflection of Iraq's mood and condition. Nine months after Kassem and a handful of co-conspirators toppled the government of hated Strongman Nuri asSaid, the land that some say was the Garden of Eden is a place of terror, plot and counterplot. Its prisons are jammed with an estimated 5,000 political prisoners and ex-officials, and its lampposts are periodically festooned with bodies. Kassem's Iraq is a place where once-eminent citizens disappear without a trace, a land where fortnight...
Next to Jimmy Dean, Julie Harris's role is most demanding, and she carries it off with all her girlish charm. She romps with Aaron, comforts Cal, and appears as the most genuinely loveable character in the wagonload of "good" characters in "East of Eden...
Once away from the Trasks and Alma, however, the "East of Eden" world is one of two-dimensional people and scenes. Actually, there is less use of folksy humor and other side show effects than there might have been. Elia Kazan's handling of the anti-German feeling during World I seemed very fine indeed, and the movie is worth seeing just to watch its town parade of victory girls, the Kaiser in a noose, and Important Citizens...