Made just two years after James Dean died in a car crash at age 24, this 1957 biography assembles home movies, screen tests, and interviews with family, friends, and colleagues from Fairmount, Indiana to the Hollywood soundstages of "East of Eden," "Rebel Without a Cause," and "Giant." Co-directed by Robert Altman early in his career, the film has none of the distance later Dean documentaries would gain from decades of hindsight; the people on camera are still visibly working through the shock of losing him. Narration walks through his childhood on his aunt and uncle's farm, his restless years studying acting in New York, and the sudden run of three films that made him famous before he ever saw two of them released. Racing footage and shots of his Porsche Spyder point toward the crash on Highway 46 without dwelling on it. The result is less a critical assessment than a document of grief still fresh, made by people who knew Dean rather than critics writing about him.