Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause

Warner Bros.

October 29, 1955

Drama

DVD
C-

I've watched this once before but I just can't get into it.  The best part is the sympathetic cop played by Edward Platt, and that feels wrong somehow.  Nicholas Ray directed and co-wrote.

The Gene Krupa Story

The Gene Krupa Story

Columbia

December 1959

Historical Drama, Musical

DVD
C+

Very '50s take on the '20s and '30s, especially the fashion and hairstyles, and I wouldn't say the movie is "good" but I did find it somewhat entertaining.  And, yes, Krupa is set up for possession of "reefers," but we never find out by whom.  (I suspect Dorissa Dinell.)  Don Weis directed, four years before Critic's Choice.