The James Dean Story: The Early Documentary by Robert Altman

On James Dean’s 80th birth­day, this film prob­a­bly deserves its own lit­tle men­tion. The James Dean Sto­ry, a 79 minute doc­u­men­tary chron­i­cling the life and times of Jim­my Dean, came out two years after the young actor’s death in 1955. Most notably, the film was direct­ed by Robert Alt­man, a young direc­tor who would even­tu­al­ly make MASH, Nashville, The Play­er, Gos­ford Park, etc. It’s also cat­a­logued in our col­lec­tion, 4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Clas­sics, Indies, Noir, West­erns, Doc­u­men­taries & More.

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