*East of Eden, on TCM now.

[elleng]

Film adaptation of Steinbeck's classic about a 1917 California farm family and the two brothers who struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor.
Dir: Elia Kazan Cast: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey

[usonian]

1. Set in the Salinas Valley.

Suffered from recent flooding.

[frogmarch]

2. I saw it when it came to my hometown movie theater

and didn't get why my older sister was crazy over James Dean and went to see it several times just to see him. I was 11, but even when I became a teenybopper I didn't get the allure of James Dean.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Followed by Rebel Without a Cause and Giant

Surely I’ll absorb some of it in my sleep. Just kidding. Recording is set.

[elleng]

4. Not sure WHAT I'll absorb, but SOMETHING, I hope.