East of Eden (1955)

Written by Paul Osborn

Directed by Elia Kazan

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1955

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

Set in California's Salinas Valley, this powerful, and often brutal, epic tells the story of the rivalry between two brothers challenging for the affections of their farmer father.

The story follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

When Cal Trask (James Dean), a wild visionary, discovers that his supposedly dead mother is running a nearby brothel, his already strained relationship with his brother, Adam (Raymond Massey) and father Aron (Richard Davalos) starts to irrevocably break down.

Based on John Steinbeck's novel

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Cast

	Julie Harris		Abra
	James Dean		Cal Trask
	Raymond Massey		Adam Trask
	Burl Ives		Sam the Sheriff
	Richard Davalos		Aron Trask
	Jo Van Fleet		Kate
	Albert Dekker		Will Hamilton
	Lois Smith		Anne
	Harold Gordon		Gustav Albrecht
	Nick Dennis		Rantani