Giant (1956 film)

Giant is a 1956 American Warner Color drama film, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferbers 1952 novel. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo, Rod Taylor, Elsa Cardenas and Earl Holliman. Giant was the last of James Deans three films as a leading actor, and earned him his second and last Academy Award nomination he was killed in a car accident before the film was released. Nick Adams was called in to do some voice dubbing for Deans role.

The movie follows a Texas family over a quarter century from the 1920s until after World War II. Themes of discrimination along race, class and gender lines, as well as the role they played in the social evolution of postwar Texas, are prominent.In the 1920s, Jordan Bick Benedict, Jr. Rock Hudson, head of a wealthy Texas ranching family, travels to Maryland to buy War Winds, a horse 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. ........

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