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.
15 December 1922, Los Angeles County, California, USA
December 10, 1914 in Staten Island, New York, USA
10 January 1939, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
March 23, 1911 in New York City, New York, USA
20 September 1897, Vevay, Indiana, USA
6 March 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 March 1908, New York, USA
March 21, 1895 in Portland, Oregon, USA
23 November 1914, Texas, USA
7 December 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 March 1884, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 July 1931, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, USA
5 December 1901, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
April 16, 1933 in Laredo, Texas, USA
17 November 1925, Winnetka, Illinois, USA
June 28, 1886
5 February 1904, Bixby, Oklahoma, USA
October 12, 1893 in Cochise, Arizona, USA
18 July 1902, Seagoville, Texas, USA
26 February 1905, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
25 November 1934, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
11 January 1930, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
November 17, 1897 in Davis, West Virginia, USA
30 October 1912, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
15 August 1900, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
27 October 1934, Green Acres, Long Island, New York, USA
3 January 1908, Concho, Arizona, USA
25 July 1890, San Francisco, California, USA
November 13, 2007
Its deeper themes and superb performances from Taylor, Hudson and Dean make it a classic Hollywood epic.
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.
May 20, 2003
Giant, for all its complexity, is a strong contender for the year's top-film award.
May 11, 2007
Dean's last performance is poetry in motion.
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.
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.
November 13, 2007
Much of it is awful, but it's almost impossible not to be taken in by the narrative sprawl.
November 13, 2007
Like the title says.
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.
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.
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.
