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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569706903
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Extra tracks, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Running Time: 201 minutes
Sales Rank: 1810
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1956
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Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love, swagger, connive and clash in a saga of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. It's also one of the most beloved works of director George Stevens, who won an Academy AwardO* for this film, one of 10 Oscar nominations** the film earned.
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They call it Giant because everything in this picture is big, from the generous running time (more than 200 minutes) to the sprawling ranch location (a horizon-to-horizon plain with a lonely, modest mansion dropped in the middle) to the high-powered stars. Stocky Rock Hudson stars as the confident, stubborn young ranch baron Bick Benedict, who woos and wins the hand of Southern belle Elizabeth Taylor, a seemingly demure young beauty who proves to be Hudson's match after she settles into the family homestead. For many the film is chiefly remembered for James Dean's final performance, as poor former ranch hand Jett Rink, who strikes oil and transforms himself into a flamboyant millionaire playboy. Director George Stevens won his second Oscar for this ambitious, grandly realized (if sometimes slow moving) epic of the changing socioeconomic (and physical) landscape of modern Texas, based on Edna Ferber's bestselling novel. The talented supporting cast includes Mercedes McCambridge as Bick's frustrated sister, put out by the new 'woman of the house'; Chill Wills as the Benedicts' garrulous rancher neighbor; Carroll Baker and Dennis Hopper as the Benedicts' rebellious children; and Earl Holliman and Sal Mineo as dedicated ranch hands. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating: - Giant
"Giant" is a larger-than-life 1950s soap opera filled with all sorts of rivalries, oil derricks, class warfare, and cattle barons. Rock Hudson plays Jordan "Bick" Benedict who brings home an Easterner (Elizabeth Taylor) as his bride. Bick's sister, Luz, doesn't take none too kindly to new bride Leslie whereas ranch hand Jett Rink quite clearly does. Leslie herself is appalled that women are to be seen and not heard, and that no one seems the least perturbed that Mexican workers on the ranch live in squalid conditions.
This first half of "Giant" is very entertaining in the way that soap operas can be. The ranch, Reata, is expansive; the mansion they live in is a colossus. The performances are quite good, especially Mercedes McCambridge's tough, almost mannish sister, Luz. Everyone seems to both admire and fear that old Texas gal. James Dean can be downright endearing as down-on-his-luck Jett, especially when we see that he is trying to educate himself with school primers; other times, eyes sometimes darting, sometimes cast down, he spouts off wisecracks. Of course, any soap worthy of its name is going to touch here and there on social issues. Leslie gives a verbal whipping to the menfolk when they insist politics is a topic not suitable to female ears. She is also chastised when she attempts to secure medical aid for a Mexican mother and her sick child.
It is in the second half that the movie seems choppy. This is in part due to the rush of the years. The ... Read More
Rating:  - Boring and ridiculous
What is it all these people are praising? I saw nothing of the quality which they seem to see. Rock Hudson was ridiculous! James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor are too young to play their roles, no matter how much silver the make-up people spray into their hair. It was so long and boring. The blocking was clumsy and stilted. What else can I say? I could only get through one hour of this disaster. Academy Awards? Give me a break.
Rating:  - James Dean is a genius in this Giant Bore!
I love a good sprawling epic. This, however, is not one of them. It is boring, dated, and just plain bad. There is nothing engaging about Hudson or Taylor in this film. It excruciatingly plods along.
The two stars I gave it, are solely Dean's. It's sad this virtuoso performance, his last, is a part of this meandering mess. Dean plays a tragic figure in this movie. Plus, he is utterly convincing as an older man. Too bad his character wasn't the center of his own story.
My advice, if you are a Dean fan: rent it and fast forward to his parts. Skip the seemingly unending saga of the Boring and the Beautiful.
Rating:  - Giant
I am into some old movies, and always loved rock hudson in this. it also has james dean, elizabeth taylor.
i finally went out and bought the dvd. am glad i did.
Rating: - Giant
It had been a long time since we had seen this film and had forgotten just how good it is. We enjoyed it to no end. What a great cast.
Thanks, NBK
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