… denn sie wissen nicht, was sie tun
At last comfortable on screen, Hopper played the stern and emotionally distant father of Natalie Wood in the James Dean classic, "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), and the often-absent father in "The Bad Seed" (1956). He starred in the science-fiction films "20 Million Miles to Earth" and "The Deadly Mantis", released in 1957.