[6] Paul Newman headlines this Robert Wise biopic about real-life boxing champ Rocky Graziano. Ernest Lehman’s smart, well-paced script sees Rocky through several youthful indiscretions that threaten to ruin him just as the lightweight championship comes within reach. Though he had appeared in one other film prior, this is the movie that launched Paul Newman to stardom, and it’s no wonder why — he’s magnetic. …
[4] Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, and Sal Mineo put their lives on the line to lead hundreds of Jewish refugees into Palestine during the wake of WWII in Otto Preminger’s Exodus. The film has its moments, but for subject matter so ripe with dramatic potential, it’s in desperate need of a solid narrative through-line and more compelling leading characters. Newman is playing a stoic …
[10] James Dean stars as Jim Stark, an angst-ridden teenager who quarrels with his parents almost as much as he tangles with high school bullies. I normally hate tough guy movies, and I’d normally put teenagers with puffed-out chests in the same group as mobsters — but Rebel Without a Cause doesn’t glorify bravado. The Oscar-nominated screenplay is more concerned about the vulnerable, real person …
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