Giant (Two-Disc Special Edition) (Keepcase) | 
| Director: George Stevens
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  116 reviews
Sales Rank: 866
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Extra Tracks, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 201 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD70690D
UPC: 012569706903
EAN: 0012569706903
ASIN: B0007US7FI
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1956
Release Date: May 31, 2005
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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 Axmaker
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GIANT-Superb June 25, 2009
Peter G. Kirkendall
This is a superb DVD of the Classic film Giant. Great performances from Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor, and the last film of James Dean. There is also a great documentary on the production of the film in 1956.
 Giant April 29, 2009
stupid for doing this (fargo north dakota)
This is a great old classic with a great cast and an interesting story. It is a great performance by James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson. This is a wonderful example of what can be done with top of the line actors and great acting. No car crashes. No nudity. Great movie.
Truely a Classic April 20, 2009
Robert C. Shinkle
Giant is one of the classics that you never get tired of watching over and over again. Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson truely made this movie one to be watched. I'm not much of a fan of James Dean so I guess his part was okay, they could have gotten a drunken monkey to play his part and would have turned out about the same. Other than that, this movie is one for all the ages to watch and think about the way it used to be in Texas back during that time period.
What an epic March 7, 2009
Harkanwar Anand (Corona, New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At twenty four years of age, I feel I am too old and withdrawn to have watched this film so late in life. No, it's just that I am one of those fellas who seem to have anything on the cue and I'm glad I watched this and felt in love with it. Something about it. The storytelling? The masterly Texas? The fact that I'm not American and search for America in Queens, New york? Or am I sounding a tad too self...
I know this is in colour but off late,I am trying to watch as many as black and white films as I can because there lies a certain substance in these films which the newer film-makers seem to have forgotten to showcase or maybe just what was primarily important for someone in the 1950's somehow seems so much concise and apt. There seemed to be structure, belief, hope and though I've always been a big individualist, I feel newer films are based more on an individual, self-indulgent level. I do not have the capacity to explain this to you without looking you in the eye so I'll just start by telling you all I loved Giant.
*Thumbs up*
I only saw it recently. What an outstanding epic of sorts. Not the best end, not the best Spanish kid, but yes, the most beautiful actress with surreptitiousness one can't help but fall in love with and that mighty swagger of the great James Dean (only my 2nd JD film, I know he doesn't have many more..)
THIS IS A VERY GOOD MOVIE! A ALL-TIME CLASSIC! January 20, 2009
Teresa (NORTH CAROLINA, USA)
I highly recommend this movie, it is one I remember watching as a little girl, and I loved it then, as I do know! I always thought Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor had great chemisty together, and they have always been beautiful people!
James Dean was a awesome actor, and very handsome! I though everyone acting in this movie did a outstanding job, that's what made the movie so great! It keeps your attention!
It is about a rich, handsome cattleman named Jordan(Rock Hudson) from Texas, who owns a ranching empire named Reatta, who travels to England to buy a horse, and falls in love with the horse owner's, very beautiful daughter Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor). For Jordan and Leslie ,it is love at first sight, and they get married, and go back to Texas! But in Texas Leslie has to face alot of changes, and old traditions, and has to deal with a sister in law that does not like her at all!
Jordan(ROCK) likes having things his way, and sticking to old traditions, and Leslie lets Jordan know that she has a mind of her own! He is stubborn, and she is stubbon! It is fun too watch Rock and Elizabeth in this movie!
But things start changing when oil is discovered on Reatta, especially for Jordan, and Leslie, and Jett(James Dean)! Jordan could care less about oil, he is a cattleman, but Jett feels totally different about it! I highly recommend this movie! It is one of my all-time favorites!
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