East of Eden (film)

"Son, I'd be happy if you'd give me something like your brother's given me. Something honest and human and good. Don't be angry, Son. If you want to give me a present, give me a good life. That's something I could value."

"Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man."

"I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it. Tonight, I even tried to buy your love, but now I don't want it anymore... I can't use it anymore. I don't want any kind of love anymore. It doesn't pay off."

"It's gonna work because it's got to work and it's got to work because I said so!"

"The way I figure it out Aron never having had a mother he's made her everything good that he can think of and that's what he thinks I am. That's who he's in love with. It's not me at all. 'Cause I'm not a bit like that made- up one. Not a bit. I don't mean I think I'm really bad."

"Mr. Trask, it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world. Don't ask me - even if you could - how I know that. I just know it. It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. And that's the way Cal has always felt, Mr. Trask. All his life! Maybe you didn't mean it that way - but it's true. You never gave him your love. You never asked for his. You never asked him for one thing. But you must give him some sign, Mr. Trask, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him."

"Your father still thinks he's living in the Bible, huh?"

"I got the toughest house on the coast, and the finest clientele. Half the stinking city hall go here. They sneak in at night, and I walk in this front door in the day time."

"Your father. He's the purest man there is, isn't he? Oh, he thought he had me all tied up with his purity. Now I give you $5000 of the money I made to save his purity. If you don't think that's funny, you'd better not go to college."

"Of what a girl did . . . what a boy did ... of ecstasy and revenge!"

"The searing classic of paradise lost."

"Julie Harris - Abra"

"James Dean - Cal Trask"

"Raymond Massey - Adam Trask"

"Richard Davalos - Aron Trask"

"Burl Ives - Sam the Sheriff"

"Jo Van Fleet - Kate"

"Albert Dekker - Will Hamilton"

"Lois Smith - Anne, Kate's servant"

"Timoth Carey - Joe, Kate's henchman"

"Harold Gordon - Gustav Albrecht"

"Barbara Baxley - Adam's nurse"

"Lony Chapman - Car instructor"