Starring James Dean, Burl Ives, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Jo Van Fleet, Carolyn Jones, Pat Priest, and Albert Dekker. Directed by Elia Kazan. The son of lettuce farmer Adam Trask means well but can't stay out of trouble, nor is he able to match the esteem in which his father holds his brother Aaron . Only Aaron's girlfriend and the kindly old sheriff can see the essential goodness in the troublesome boy. When Adam invests in a chancy and wholly unsuccessful method of shipping his crops east his wealth plummets. In an effort to save the business, the boy obtains money from his estranged mother (the proprietor of a whorehouse) and invests it in a risky new bean crop. The gamble pays off (thanks in no small part to the war), but Adam refuses to take the money from his son and the resulting quarrel causes Adam to have a stroke.
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