That's not to say these actors wouldn't have been stars without Coppola's movies (none of them are ... Thomas Howell as Ponyboy Curtis, little brother of Sodapop and Darrel.

But it is Howell's halcyon recitation, as the beloved greaser Ponyboy Curtis ... most of whom were teens when the movie was shot. "What an iconic cast," said Howell, now 57.