from Warner Bros.
Directed by
George
Stevens
Starring
Elizabeth
Taylor (Leslie Lynnton Benedict)
Rock
Hudson (Jordan "Bick" Benedict)
James
Dean (Jett Rink)
Carroll Baker (Luz Benedict younger)
Jane Withers (Vashti Snythe)
Chill Wills (Uncle Bawley Benedict)
Mercedes McCambridge (Luz Benedict older)
Dennis Hopper (Jordan Benedict III)
Sal Mineo (Angel Obregon II)
Rod Taylor (Sir David Karfrey)
Judith Evelyn (Mrs. Horace Lynnton)
Earl Holliman (Bob Dace)
Robert Nichols (Pinky Snythe)
Paul Fix (Dr. Horace Lynnton)
Alexander Scourby (Old Polo)
Fran Bennett (Judy Benedict)
Charles Watts (Whiteside)
Elsa Cardenas (Juana Benedict)
Carolyn Craig (Lacey Lynnton)
Monte Hale (Bale Clinch)
Sheb Wooley (Gabe Target)
Mary Ann Edwards (Adarene Clinch)
Victor Millan (Angel Obregon I)
Mickey Simpson (Sarge)
Pilar Del Rey (Mrs. Obregon)
Maurice Jara (Dr. Guerra)
Noreen Nash (Lona Lane)
Ray Whitley
Napoleon Whiting (Swazey)
Nick Adams (Jett Rink (voice))
Elsa Aguirre
Barbara Barrie (Mary Lou Decker)
Dana Dillaway (Judy, age 4)
Peter Dunn
Tina Menard (Lupe)
Max Terhune (Dr. Walker)
Natividad Vacio (Eusebio)
Written by
Fred Guiol
Ivan Moffat
Edna Ferber (novel)
Rated: 
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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
Axmake
1956
Academy Award®
Best Director - George Stevens
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