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Love is found in the unlikeliest of places: in Italian Verona of the Montagues and Capulets, in the back seat of a car on the ill-fated Titanic, and in an abandoned mansion in Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without A Cause. Jim Stark (James Dean) sits in a police station being ignored by his hen-pecking parents: he wants them to listen to him, but they can’t even listen to each other. Young Plato (Sal Mineo) is there too; he’s been out gunning down puppies but he sits sullenly, dressed like a dandy in a tie and sweater. The third character in our triangle is Judy (Natalie Wood) sits in a poodle-skirt; she’s was caught walking the streets and her father has come to his “dirty tramp” up. Our characters and their conflict is established – all have either physically or emotionally nonexistent parents and this film is designed to serve as a warning to mid-50’s audiences that are in the grip of juvenile-delinquent hysteria. The next morning, after their parents and maids have bailed them out of jail, Jim, Plato, and Judy meet again school and their outsider credentials are again established; Jim mistakenly steps on the school emblem embedded in the sidewalk are earns the ire of his classmates and Plato has a fan boy picture