Elia Kazan's variation on the Cain-and-Abel theme: an accursed ne'er-do-well and his blessed goody-goody brother compete with one another under the stern, critical eye of their Bible-thumping father. The color and the locales (in John Steinbeck's California, circa World War I) are perceived with the same wide-eyed wonder as the moral lessons. James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey, Jo Van Fleet. (1955) — Duncan Shepherd
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