a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number AMR DVD 000044

a Personal name Stevens, George.

a Title Giant

h Medium DVD

a Place of publication, distribution, etc USA

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1956

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Warner Home Video

a Extent 3 DVD

a Playing time 201 min

a General note From the novel by EDNA FERBER

a Summary, etc Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds across two generations.

a Summary, etc Ambitious Texas-style scale epic that traces the rising and falling fortunes of two generations of Texans, thus allowing makeup artists to enable Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean to grow old before our eyes. Miscegenation, moral dissipation, racism, the oppression of women....a variety of topics are brought forth during the film's 201-minute running time. The core of the film is actually the relationship between Bick Benedict (Hudson) and his wife Leslie (Taylor). It is through them that we follow the film's themes of generation, conflict and social change. However, it is Jett Rink (Dean) whom audiences remember, particularly in the early scenes when he is striding out on his small piece of land or when he comes to tell Benedict that "my well came in big." He puts his oily hand on one of the white columns of Benedict's porch and, unemphatically, director George Stevens instantly crystallizes the theme of the film - the muddy thumb prints of materialism on the pillars of elegance and the coming of conflict between the aristocracy and the nouveau riche. "you should have shot that fella a long time ago," a friend says to Benedict about Jett Rink. "Now he's too rich to kill."

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Drama

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American Corner

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Romance

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Western

a Personal name Taylor, Elizabeth,

d Dates associated with a name 1912-1975

a Personal name Rock Hudson

a Personal name James Dean

a Personal name Carroll Baker

a Personal name Jane Withers

a Personal name Chill Wills

a Personal name Mercedes McCambridge

a Personal name Dennis Hopper

a Personal name Sal Mineo

a Personal name Rod Taylor

a Personal name Judith Evelyn

a Personal name Earl Holliman

a Personal name Robert Nichols

a Personal name Paul Fix

a Personal name Alexander Scourby

u Uniform Resource Identifier http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049261

u Cover Images http://library.neu.edu.tr/uploaded-files/coverimages/tt0049261.jpg