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You're Tearing Me Apart: Rebel Without a Cause at 60

Alan Dein explores the making and meanings of the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, drawing on rare and previously unheard archive material.

It's impossible now to separate the cult of James Dean from the film that defined a teen-age. But Rebel Without a Cause is now 60 years old. Do it and its star still have the same power and allure? Alan Dein explores the mystery and mystique of Rebel and drawing on rare, never-heard archive, explores the making of a legend.

Producer: Mark Burman

First broadcast September 2015.

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45 minutes

Last on

Fri 9 Sep 2016 21:15

Broadcasts

  • Sun 20 Sep 2015 18:45
  • Fri 9 Sep 2016 21:15

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