Many have considered James Dean's Jett Rink to be his best, although unfortunately last, role. Rink is a rags to riches story, beginning on Reata ranch at Texas as a handyman then ending rich but an alcoholic and alone. When the ranch owner gets married, Rink is immediately infatuated with her and vice versa, so much so that Leslie gives him a piece of land on the ranch. It's full of oil and Rink makes his fortune. Still rejected by Leslie for over many years, he has become a source of fascination by her teenage daughter. It also does not help that Leslie's husband and Luz's father has spent even longer despising Rink. Dean's method acting comes out brilliantly, going as far as to be completely drunk in his last scenes but Nick Adams had to come in to overdub more incoherent mumbling.
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