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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.
17 May 1936, Dodge City, Kansas, USA
1 September 1922, Ada, Oklahoma, USA
26 May 1929, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
2 August 1913, New York, USA
11 November 1932, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 November 1904, Antwerp, Belgium
June 28, 1886
5 February 1904, Bixby, Oklahoma, USA
11 January 1930, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
20 January 1913, Mount Vernon, Texas, USA
21 September 1910, Canton, Mississippi, USA
15 August 1900, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
10 April 1921, Erick, Oklahoma, USA
12 April 1926, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
23 May 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 June 1893, San Bernardino, California, USA
29 April 1918, New York, USA
18 May 1918, Guymon, Oklahoma, USA
2 September 1919, Waco, Texas, USA
8 June 1919, Ada, Oklahoma, USA
November 13, 2007
Like the title says.
May 11, 2007
Dean's last performance is poetry in motion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
November 13, 2007
Its deeper themes and superb performances from Taylor, Hudson and Dean make it a classic Hollywood epic.
May 20, 2003
Giant, for all its complexity, is a strong contender for the year's top-film award.
November 13, 2007
Much of it is awful, but it's almost impossible not to be taken in by the narrative sprawl.
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.
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.