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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Western /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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George Stevens
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Actors:
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James Dean,
Mercedes McCambridge,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Rock Hudson,
Carroll Baker,
Jane Withers,
Chill Wills,
Dennis Hopper,
Sal Mineo,
Rod Taylor
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Duration:
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201 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)174.5
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Plot Summary:
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Edna Ferber's best-selling family saga was the source of Stevens' sprawling epic, which stars Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean, in his pattern fade away bearing. When Texas cattleman Bick Benedict (Hudson) goes to Virginia in the early 1920s to buy a champion stallion, he falls in admiration with Leslie Lynnton (Taylor), an aristocratic, notwithstanding-minded beauty, and they on the double combine. He takes her back to Reata, his 600,000-acre ranch, where sister Luz (Mercedes McCambridge), the derivation matriarch, does her most suitable to settle Leslie feel unwelcome. Leslie ... is appalled through the inferior merchandise-class importance accorded to women and racist attitudes toward the local Mexicans, neither of which have all the hallmarks to bother her still. Effectively of compassion, she befriends surly ranch man Jett Rink (James Dean), who comes to worship her from afar, envying Bick for both his wealth and his wife. He strikes lubricate on land bequeathed to him by the deceased Luz and his assets and power grow apace. As the years pass, the bewildered Bick oft finds his children thwarting his wishes and criticizing his beliefs, pushing the millionaire to question his values for the head time in his dash. The shoot's unsettled cast, which also features Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Carroll Baker, Earl Holliman, and Numb Wills, inject vitality into a project that every now suffers from longueurs.
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Giant
Four years in the making and a effort of fervour for director George Stevens, in 1957 Superhuman became the biggest hit in Warner Bros' representation; an era when the threat of small screen made films bigger and more spectacular. This reworking of Edna Ferber's novel was typically grand in both plotting and looks, and garnered no less than ten Oscar nominations. Chronicling 25 years in the lives of Texan millionaire rancher Bick Benedict (Hudson) and his wife Leslie (Taylor), Amazon nonetheless has more than a whiff of melodrama and many flaws. But since it tragically became the model starring role for James Dean, the screen has taken on a vein that outweighs in spite of its three hour running time. Opening at the beginning of Bick and Lesl...
Giant
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Stevens' sprawling epic of Texan life, taken from Edna Ferber's narrative, strives so tough for the benefit of Sombre Statements that it...
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