Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase)
by George Stevens
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Actor: Carroll Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Jane Withers, Rock HudsonDirector: George Stevens
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: William C. Mellor
Producer: George Stevens
Editor: William Hornbeck
Producer: Henry Ginsberg
Writer: Edna Ferber
Writer: Fred Guiol
Writer: Ivan Moffat
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Extra tracks, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 201 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-31
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase)
Movie Review: Giant
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great old classic with a great cast and an interesting story. It is a great performance by James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson. This is a wonderful example of what can be done with top of the line actors and great acting. No car crashes. No nudity. Great movie.
Summary of Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase)
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.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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