RESTORED FOOTAGE

IT WAS THE 1950's, AND SCENES LIKE THIS WERE JUST NOT ACCEPTABLE IN MAINSTREAM FILMS, EVEN CONSCIOUSNESS-EXPANDING FILMS LIKE REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. I WONDER IF 'CRITERION' WILL DO A 'DIRECTOR'S CUT' OF THIS GREAT MASTERPIECE. TEN PERCENT OF AMERICA IS NOT STILL PACKED INTO DARK AND LONELY CLOSETS........or are they? EVEN WITHOUT THIS SCENE, THE FILM SPOKE TO THAT PART OF ME THAT I THOUGHT, AT THE TIME, WAS A PART OF ONLY ME.

I WAS TOTALLY INFATUATED WITH ALL THREE OF THESE ACTORS, WHO ALL DIED TRAGICALLY....... DEAN, IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT, MINEO WAS MURDERED AND WOOD DROWNED MYSTERIOUSLY.....NICK ADAMS, WHO WAS ALSO IN "REBEL" ALSO DIED....OF A DRUG OVERDOSE.... THE LOST GENERATION WAS LEFT WITH ANNETTE FUNICELLO, TOMMY KIRK AND TAB HUNTER.......BUT........