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Giant
In the 1920s, Jordan 'Bick' Benedict, head of a wealthy Texas ranching family, travels to Maryland to buy War Winds - a horse that he is planning to put out to stud. There he meets and courts socialite Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor), who ends a budding relationship with British diplomat Sir David Karfrey (Rod Taylor) and marries Bick after a whirlwind romance.
October 14, 1884
10 March 1884, Chicago, Illinois, USA
November 7, 1902 in Missouri, USA
16 March 1916, Joliet, Illinois, USA
25 November 1934, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
July 14, 1893 in Mobile, Alabama, USA
June 28, 1886
27 August 1894, Knoxville, Pennsylvania, USA
10 October 1931, Berlin, Germany
10 January 1939, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
14 December 1916, New York, USA
November 28, 1901 in Alabama, USA
April 14, 2014
The combination of director George Stevens and source novelist Edna Ferber, both given to expressions of overblown high seriousness, yields a long, slow, achingly self-important movie.
November 13, 2007
Its deeper themes and superb performances from Taylor, Hudson and Dean make it a classic Hollywood epic.
November 13, 2007
Much of it is awful, but it's almost impossible not to be taken in by the narrative sprawl.
December 13, 2005
Some critics consider Giant to too bloated and sprawling, but by its era's standards, it exposed idelogical cracks in the American Dream, the myth of melting pot, women's allotted place in society.
June 14, 2003
A real movie is big, grand, magnificent and regales you with all the power that movies can wield upon a viewer's imagination and spirit. George Stevens' 1956 production, Giant, is a real movie.
November 13, 2007
An excellent film which registers strongly on all levels, whether it's in its breathtaking panoramic shots of the dusty Texas plains; the personal, dramatic impact of the story itself, or the resounding message it has to impart.
May 20, 2003
Giant, for all its complexity, is a strong contender for the year's top-film award.
June 24, 2006
Stevens' sprawling epic of Texan life, taken from Edna Ferber's novel, strives so hard for Serious Statements that it ends up as a long yawn.
November 13, 2007
Like the title says.
September 28, 2016
Sweeping saga of American prosperity that reveals its racist underbelly; glorious star vehicle that upends rigid gender roles; modern western that questions the validity of frontier land ownership.
May 11, 2007
Dean's last performance is poetry in motion.
