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.
1 September 1922, Ada, Oklahoma, USA
6 February 1924, Texas City, Texas, USA
11 January 1930, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
26 August 1904, Imuris, Sonora, Mexico
6 March 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 March 1910, Portland, Maine, USA
20 March 1913, Seneca, South Dakota, USA
9 October 1898, Amarillo, Texas, USA
30 October 1912, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
1 August 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 December 1913, Rochester, New York, USA
March 14, 1921 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
July 14, 1893 in Mobile, Alabama, USA
4 March 1943, Missouri, USA
29 April 1918, New York, USA
2 September 1919, Waco, Texas, USA
5 February 1904, Bixby, Oklahoma, USA
11 September 1928, Delhi, Louisiana, USA
17 May 1936, Dodge City, Kansas, USA
4 April 1924, Wenatchee, Washington, USA
25 March 1908, Falmouth, Florida, USA
20 March 1908, New York, USA
26 February 1905, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
June 21, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
October 1, 1885 in Illinois, USA
26 May 1929, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
20 January 1913, Mount Vernon, Texas, USA
March 21, 1895 in Portland, Oregon, USA
March 23, 1911 in New York City, New York, USA
May 11, 2007
Dean's last performance is poetry in motion.
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
Like the title says.
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.
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.
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.
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.
November 13, 2007
Much of it is awful, but it's almost impossible not to be taken in by the narrative sprawl.
May 20, 2003
Giant, for all its complexity, is a strong contender for the year's top-film award.
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.
