This Rebel Breed (1960) RITA MORENO

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FULL MOVIE/RARE DIRECTOR’S CUT
Stars: Rita Moreno, Mark Damon, Dyan Cannon
Director: Richard L. Bare

After a racially motivated gang war erupts, a pair of rookie cops infiltrate the gangs’ high school to stop the senseless violence. Rita Moreno is absolutely stunning in this pre-West Side Story role. Watch for a young Dyan Cannon as Wiggles (billed Diana Cannon) in her second feature film. Based on “All God’s Children,” a story from the LAPD’s beat magazine.

TRIVIA: Re-released in 1965 for the Drive-In and Grindhouse circuit titled “Black Rebels” or “Lola’s Mistake” with a handful of incongruous nude scenes spiced in.

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39 Replies to “This Rebel Breed (1960) RITA MORENO”

  3. Isn’t that Dyan Cannon (Diane in the credits) , pretty great acting for a teen! Also what’s with the black face make up? That was Really the downside of this film. Ridiculous!
    Hail Rita, I wouldn’t have sat through this otherwise.

  6. This movie reminded me of Westside Story, but it's a true portrayal of the way America was back then, and unfortunately still is to a greater extent !

  7. This movie is great. It shows that drugs and teenagers were this way back in the 1950's. this film covers all the forbidden subjects, little wonder It was hidden.

  10. Lola’s Dad speaks Spanish with a German accent lol. OMG, now I know Hollywood has been misrepresenting MexicanS since EVER and still do till this very day. No wonder 90% of people from the USA AND THE WORLD think That ALL Mexico looks like TJ’s border ???? ???? ???? OH LORDDTTT

  11. NEW YORK TIMES, 'This Rebel Breed' Opens on Double Bill, by Eugene Archer, Thursday, May 5, 1960-ANYONE who doubts that adolescent recreations have changed since the days of Andy Hardy can find ample evidence of evolution in Warner Brothers' "This Rebel Breed," which came to neighborhood theatres yesterday. In this ninety-minute catalogue of popular indoor sports among the juvenile set, high school athletes are observed indulging in narcotics, rock 'n' roll, interracial love and war, and assorted forms of competitive violence. A public-school education as depicted on the screen may have its shortcomings, but a student could hardly find it dull. Advertised as an unvarnished story of race prejudice and discrimination among teen-agers, "This Rebel Breed" substitutes action for insight but maintains enough excitement to place it a cut or two above the usual sensationalized products of the genre. Mark Damon as a detective of Mexican-Negro ancestry, Rita Moreno as a pregnant student, Richard Rust as a gang leader and Diane Cannon as his moll competently carry the plot toward its climactic tri-racial rumble. Richard L. Bare, who directed economically, spends more time describing vices than trying to analyze them, and keeps things moving at a lively clip. The co-feature, American-International's "The Angry Red Planet," solemnly warns its audiences not to go to Mars. Stubborn patrons who ignore the advice will discover that the planet looks like a cardboard illustration from Flash Gordon and is inhabited by carnivorous plants, a giant amoeba and a species resembling a three-eyed green ant. The four scientists on the expedition are a bearded professor, a comic from Brooklyn, a stalwart hero and a luscious redhead. Any observer who cannot guess which two come back alive should have a fine time at the film. THIS REBEL BREED; screen play by Morris Lee Green, from a story by William Rowland and Irma Berk; produced by Mr. Rowland; directed by Richard L. Bare and released by Warner Brothers. Running time: ninety minutes. Lola . . . . . Rita Moreno; Frank . . . . . Mark Damon; Lieutenant Brooks . . . . . Gerald Mohr; Buck . . . Richard Rust; Don . . . . . Douglas Hume; Wiggles . . . . . Diane Cannon. THE ANGRY RED PLANET; screen play by Ib Melchoir and Sid Pink, from a story by Mr. Pink; produced by Mr. Pink and Norman Maurer; directed by Mr. Melchoir; a Sino Production released by American International. Running time: eighty-three minutes. Col. Tom O'Banion . . . . . Gerald Mohr; Dr. Iris Ryan . . . . . Nora Hayden; Prof. Theodore Gettell . . . Les Tremayne; Sgt. Sam Jacobs . . . . . Jack Kruschen; Maj. Gen. George Treegar . . . . . Paul Hahn

  18. Cella nous change des films actuels, qui ne sont que de la violence sous toutes ses formes. Voudrait-on mnipuler nos caractères? Histoire à suivre, comme l'on dit.

  26. I wonder if they edited out some original 1959 footage (when the movie was actually filmed) when they spliced in the 1965 footage like that 1963 Impala. I saw Black Rebel, which is this same movie but with 1965 footage spliced in and released that same year. It seems most of the original 1959 content was retained but some of it might have been edited out.

  34. High school…what happened, half of the student body must have repeated middle school a few times!!! No ones ever actually in class, except Rita, gotta love the cool jazz grooves!!!????????

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