East of Eden - DVD

Hollywood legend James Dean stars in this adaptation of John Steinbeck'sclassic novel East of Eden. Teenaged Cal Trask (Dean--Rebel Without aCause, Giant) longs for the affection that his father reserves for his brother Aron, but his efforts meet only rejection. Also attracted toAron's girlfriend, Cal becomes so frustrated in his search for love and acceptance that he reveals a long-held secret about their mother to Aron, knowledge that

Nearly a century after it's big screen debut, director Lewis Milestone's The Garden of Eden returns in a new Blu-ray Disc edition from Flicker Fusion, featuring the 2025 restoration by the San Francisco Film Preserve, the George Eastman Museum, and the Library of Congress, while offering a new orchestral score by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius. Corinne Griffith headlines as ingénue Toni LeBrun, who leaves her family's humble bakery to follow fame and fortune in Budapest as an opera singer. That dream shatters however when she finds herself a cabaret chorus girl working for the delightfully menacing Madame Bauer (Maude George). Taken under the wing of the cabaret's seamstress, Rosa (Louise Dresser), Toni is caught in the whirlwind of glamorous Monte Carlo, winding up in a love triangle between her charming suitor Richard Dupont (Charles Ray) and his determined uncle. Boasting gorgeous production design by William Cameron Menzies, The Garden of Eden was originally released with an early Technicolor dream sequence that, unfortunately, has been lost to time. Utilizing archival research and rare still photographs, this new includes a reconstruction of that missing three-minute sequence.

East of Eden [Blu-ray]