"East of Eden": Cal Trask is known as the "bad" son of farmer Adam Trask. Cal just can't stay out of trouble, nor can he hold a candle to his "good" brother Aron. Only Aron's girl friend Abra and a kindly old doctor can see the goodness in Cal. "Giant": Jordan "Bick" Benedict is a moneyed cattle baron married to Leslie, a spoiled but spirited Virginia girl who has shared his triumphs and heartbreaks. Jett Rink is a sullen ranch hand whose lifestyle and personality changes radically when he becomes an oil millionaire. "Rebel without a cause": Teenager Jimmy Stark can't help but get into trouble. Judy is basically a good kid but behaves wildly out of frustration over her inability to communicate with her deliberately distant father. And Plato, who is so sensitive that he threatens to break apart like porcelain. After another incident Jimmy runs off into the night where he links up with fellow "lost souls" Judy and Plato, hiding out in an abandoned palatial home.