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Giant

  • 19561956
  • GG
  • 3h 21m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
39K
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POPULARITY
2,485
695
James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson in Giant (1956)
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DramaWestern
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
39K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,485
695
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • George Stevens
    • Writers
      • Edna Ferber(from the novel by)
      • Fred Guiol(screen play)
      • Ivan Moffat(screen play)
    • Stars
      • Elizabeth Taylor
      • Rock Hudson
      • James Dean
    Top credits
    • Director
      • George Stevens
    • Writers
      • Edna Ferber(from the novel by)
      • Fred Guiol(screen play)
      • Ivan Moffat(screen play)
    • Stars
      • Elizabeth Taylor
      • Rock Hudson
      • James Dean
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 199User reviews
    • 123Critic reviews
    • 84Metascore
    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 7 wins & 16 nominations total

    Videos3

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    Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and Sid Avery in Giant (1956)
    James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Robert Hinkle, and Mercedes McCambridge in Giant (1956)
    Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson in Giant (1956)
    James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Felipe Turich in Giant (1956)
    Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson in Giant (1956)
    James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor in Giant (1956)
    Elizabeth Taylor in "Giant"
    Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean in "Giant" 1955 Warner Bros.
    Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson in "Giant" 1955 Warner Bros.
    Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in "Giant" 1955 Warner Bros.
    Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in "Giant" 1955 Warner Bros.
    Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean in "Giant" 1955 Warner Bros.

    Top cast

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    Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor
    • Leslie Benedict
    Rock Hudson
    Rock Hudson
    • Jordan 'Bick' Benedict Jr.
    James Dean
    James Dean
    • Jett Rink
    Carroll Baker
    Carroll Baker
    • Luz Benedict II
    Jane Withers
    Jane Withers
    • Vashti Snythe
    Chill Wills
    Chill Wills
    • Uncle Bawley
    Mercedes McCambridge
    Mercedes McCambridge
    • Luz Benedict
    Dennis Hopper
    Dennis Hopper
    • Jordan Benedict III
    Sal Mineo
    Sal Mineo
    • Angel Obregón II
    Rod Taylor
    Rod Taylor
    • Sir David Karfrey
    • (as Rodney Taylor)
    Judith Evelyn
    Judith Evelyn
    • Mrs. Nancy Lynnton
    Earl Holliman
    Earl Holliman
    • 'Bob' Dace
    Robert Nichols
    Robert Nichols
    • Mort 'Pinky' Snythe
    Paul Fix
    Paul Fix
    • Dr. Horace Lynnton
    Alexander Scourby
    Alexander Scourby
    • Old Polo
    Fran Bennett
    Fran Bennett
    • Judy Benedict
    Charles Watts
    • Judge Oliver Whiteside
    Elsa Cárdenas
    Elsa Cárdenas
    • Juana Guerra Benedict
    • (as Elsa Cardenas)
    • Director
      • George Stevens
    • Writers
      • Edna Ferber(from the novel by)
      • Fred Guiol(screen play)
      • Ivan Moffat(screen play)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      During this production shoot James Dean appeared in an informal black-and-white television commercial in which he responded to questions posed by actor Gig Young. Ironically, Dean was promoting safe driving and informed viewers, "People say racing is dangerous, but I'd rather take my chances on the track any day than on the highway." Before he left the studio, he added one piece of advice: "Drive safely, because the life you save may be mine." Dean was wearing the same hat and clothing he wore for this movie throughout the commercial. He died a few weeks later in a car crash.
    • Goofs
      A group of Texan landowners talk about Geronimo as the chief of the Comanche. Geronimo was an Apache.
    • Quotes

      Leslie Benedict: Money isn't everything, Jett.

      Jett Rink: Not when you've got it.

    • Crazy credits
      There are no cast and crew credits given at the end of the film. Just the words "The End" and a final slide for George Stevens and Warner Bros.
    • Connections
      Featured in ABC Late Night: James Dean Remembered (1974)
    • Soundtracks
      Giant (This Then Is Texas)
      (1956)

      Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

      Music by Dimitri Tiomkin

    User reviews199

    Review
    Top review
    8/10
    a significant American tome that takes us through an elemental learning-curve of open-mindness and righteousness that flouts the specious "winner takes it all" precept
    George Steven's epic western GIANT, based on Edna Ferber's roman-fleuve about a wealthy Texas rancher household that spans over decades, rightfully won him a second Oscar for BEST DIRECTOR, but this is the sole trophy out of the picture's 10 nominations (although Mercedes McCambridge's coattail nomination is a fluke in hindsight, she has nothing to wield but a frosty front), mostly lost out to Michael Anderson's less time-honored AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS (1956), another taint forever besmirches the Academy's credibility.

    The couple under the limelight is Jordan "Bick" Benedict Jr. (Hudson), the said rancher and his wife Leslie Lynnton (Taylor), a socialite from Maryland, who must adapt herself to the a completely different lifestyle but never flinches from her modern view of treating their Mexican employees (yes, they are referred as wetbacks) with equal respect, which collides with Bick's more entrenched racist frame of mind, and this "progressive East Coast vs. traditional Western Inland" leitmotif maintains as the pillar of the film and later evolves into Bick's epic defeat of his paternalistic arrangement in relation to their three children. Throughout, it is Bick's glacial change of his old-world attitude that flourishes during all the long years, Rock Hudson gives an endearingly no-nonsense impersonation that not unlike his first name, becomes a bedrock of the film, a pretense-free Texan learns to brave a new world that beyond his widest imagination and eventually transmutes into a better person, a titular "giant" in the end, even he is beaten up for standing up for the right cause, why it is so inspiring because it is a personal victory, and means the world to them, good deeds must be carried out no matter how formidable adversity looks, who can refute that?

    Taylor, on the other hand, dazzles in Leslie's bluff honesty and impeccable integrity that makes us root for her right out of box, Leslie's life orbit is less tectonic, but incredibly, both she and Hudson acquit themselves convincingly under their senior makeup, to parent fresh-faces like Dennis Hopper and Carrol Baker, and a strong sense of affinity between the two never get attenuated, not even during their not-so-infrequent spats.

    Of course, the biggest selling point is James Dean in his final picture, although for sentimental reasons, he received his second posthumous Oscar nomination in the leading actor category, but his indecipherable upstart Jett Rink is a substantial supporting character in the whole picture, and he would be a shoo-in to win if he could have competed in the category where his character truly belongs, however, his name had already become too big a legend to be relegated at that point. His portrayal of Jett, emphatically registers a false layer of insouciance that defies operatics, vaguely masks his touching vulnerability and troubling uneasiness towards the unattainable object of his desire, Leslie, whose footprint inadvertently strikes gold for him, but whose heart he can never conquer.

    Thus, it is the black gold that sounds the death knell of the Western genre as we know it, Stevens and DP. William C. Mellor employ stunning imagery to exhibit the burgeoning modernization that invades the vastness where materialistic gain lies beneath and beckons, as an answer to the prior un-warped long shots which retain the Old West in its most august splendor, the cattle herd sequences, or the majestic take on Benedicts' singular mansion for instance, but at the end of the day, it is the story's sagacious message that transcends its racist, patriarchy milieu, and makes GIANT a culturally, historically and aesthetically significant American tome that takes us through an elemental learning-curve of open-mindedness and righteousness that flouts the specious "winner takes it all" precept, without forging its tangy nostalgia for a bygone era.
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    • Jul 9, 2018

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 24, 1956 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Div
    • Filming locations
      • Marfa, Texas, USA
    • Production company
      • George Stevens Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $5,400,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $32,855,818
    • Gross worldwide
      • $32,855,818
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      3 hours 21 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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