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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.
10 March 1884, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 June 1893, San Bernardino, California, USA
October 12, 1893 in Cochise, Arizona, USA
11 September 1928, Delhi, Louisiana, USA
29 April 1918, New York, USA
July 24, 1895 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
6 February 1924, Texas City, Texas, USA
13 November 1913, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 December 1916, New York, USA
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
26 July 1901, New York City, New York, USA
June 21, 1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
May 20, 2003
Giant, for all its complexity, is a strong contender for the year's top-film award.
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.
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
Its deeper themes and superb performances from Taylor, Hudson and Dean make it a classic Hollywood epic.
November 13, 2007
Like the title says.
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 11, 2007
Dean's last performance is poetry in motion.
November 13, 2007
Much of it is awful, but it's almost impossible not to be taken in by the narrative sprawl.
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.
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.
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.