Rebel without a Cause - notes

Rebel without a Cause - notes

In 1953, a Boston judge wrote: "We have the spectacle of an entire city terrorized by one-half of one percent of its residents. And the terrorists are children."

(Compare with this comment made by Father Flanagan [Spencer Tracy] in Boys' Town of 1938: "There isn't any such thing in the world as a bad boy."

  • See key passages from the Rebel screenplay.
  • Rebel gossip.

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