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Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790728605 Format: NTSC, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Widescreen ISBN: 0790728605 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: November 05, 1996 Running Time: 202 minutes Sales Rank: 900 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1956
Amazon.com essential video: 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 ... 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 ... Read More
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.
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