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The movie is an epic portrayal of a powerful Texas ranching family challenged by changing times and the coming of big oil. A major subplot concerns the racism of many Anglo-European Americans in Texas during the mid-twentieth century, and the discriminatory social segregation enforced against Mexican Americans . [13]
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.
Bick and Leslie get married, but she clashes with his sister, Luz Benedict (Mercedes McCambridge), and wins the admiration of the ambitious young Jett Rink (James Dean). Bick and Jett form a tense rivalry that continues to surface as the years pass and fortunes change in this sweeping drama. — Jwelch5742. 1 more.
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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...
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In the mid-1920s, Texas rancher Jordan "Bick" Benedict II goes to Maryland to buy "War Winds," a prized stallion, from Dr. Horace Lynnton. There Bick falls in love with Lynnton's spirited elder daughter Leslie. After Leslie breaks her engagement to Englishman Sir David Karfrey, they quickly marry and Bick brings Leslie back to his enormous ...
Giant (1956) A wealthy land owner and cattle rancher marries a spoiled and wealthy Virginian. When the two return to Hudson's cattle empire in Texas, conflicts around race, class and changing traditions rise to epic proportions and test the unity of the family.
Oct 10, 2016 · On Nov. 24, 1956, George Stevens’ 195-minute epic Giant hit theaters. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review of the film, which nabbed 10 Academy Award nominations, is below.
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 ...
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.
