James Dean corners Ronald Reagan at gunpoint in a living room. Yes, really.
A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.
Acting
Dean's smoldering menace versus Reagan's stiff everyman
Direction
Medford squeezes unbearable tension into 30 tight minutes
Director
Don Medford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed for TV anthology 'General Electric Theater,' hosted by Reagan himself—making this a bizarre meta-moment where he introduced his own victimhood.
This rare Dean screen appearance predates 'Rebel Without a Cause' by a year; his twitchy, physical performance already signals the Method revolution arriving in Hollywood.
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