Many films made in the 1950s and beyond examined the stultifying effects of American suburbia in the post-war years. Genre classics include Rebel Without a Cause (1955), All That Heaven Allows (1955), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), Peyton Place (1957), The Graduate (1967) and The Stepford Wives (1975). What binds these films is the corrosive e…
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