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Giant is a 1956 American epic Western drama film directed by George Stevens, from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel.
Giant: Directed by George Stevens. With Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker. Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Escorted by hired-hand Jett (James Dean), Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor) again shows unorthodox compassion for Hispanic help, visiting Mrs. Obregon (Pilar Del Rey) at "Little Reata" in , 1956, George Stevens' film from the Edna Ferber novel.
Spanning over two decades of love and hate, poverty and wealth, discrimination and racial tolerance, pride and prejudice, "Giant" pivots around the Reata: the vast 595,000-acre Texas ranch of the straight-laced landowner and cattle baron, Jordan "Bick" Benedict.
Wealthy Texas rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) shakes things up at home when he returns from a trip to the East Coast with a love interest, the refined Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor).
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Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean and Rock Hudson star in a sweeping saga of jealousy, racism and the clash of cultures set in the vast Texas oilfields.
Giant (1956) is a sprawling, grandiose and iconic western epic and melodrama based on Edna Ferber's celebrated 1952 novel. It told about two generations of a wealthy American cattle ranching family in Texas spanning a twenty-five year period (from the 1920s to the 1950s), who clashed over money, property, class differences, and racism (the film ...
Giant, American film saga, released in 1956, that tracks the lives of the family members of a ranching empire in Texas. It was James Dean’s last movie; he died in a car accident shortly after filming was completed. Based on the novel by Edna Ferber, Giant follows “Bick” Benedict (played by Rock.
Overview. Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent.
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