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A wealthy Texan marries a strong beautiful girl and their adjustments to life are interwoven with problems of Mexican workers and an ambitious ranch hand who becomes an oil tycoon.
Directors George Stevens Starring Elizabeth Taylor , Rock Hudson , James Dean Genres Western , Drama Subtitles English [CC] Audio languages English
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Supporting actors Carroll Baker , Jane Withers , Chill Wills , Mercedes McCambridge , Sal Mineo , more… Dennis Hopper Producers George Stevens , Henry Ginsberg Studio WARNER HOME VIDEO Rating G (General Audience) Purchase rights Stream instantly Details Format Prime Video (streaming online video) Devices Available to watch on supported devices
Angelica B. Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2017
Other interested shoppers out there (as well as Amazon) should know that I ordered this special edition and had to return it for defective manufacturing (the CD would get stuck in a particular scene and not budge anymore). I had the set replaced and the same thing happened with the second set only it got stuck in a different scene of the movie while it also had several stops and goes along the way. Both sets did not have consistent coloring either. I decided to return the second faulty set for a refund. Amazon should look into the manufacturer's quality of workmanship. For whatever is worth, my husband who's an engineer, said the products were defective because there is something wrong with the equipment the manufacturer is using to copy the movie. We all like to pay the lowest prices for the things we want but there is a point at which quality must prevail. Thank you!
Tara A. Lawrence-Stuart Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2020
Dating myself but I saw this when it first came out and was a huge James Dean fan. He should have posthumously won that Oscar. Living in Tucson as a teenager I saw too much anti-Mexican prejudice. How could anyone think oneself superior to someone who is bilingual? I always wondered. Superior to someone based on skin color for that matter? Ludicrous. Here it is, the year 2020, 1/5th of the 21st century has passed and yet it still goes on. Great film in many other ways. Elizabeth Taylor was magnificent, Rock was, well, a rock, and Chill Wills, a neat young Dennis Hopper, I look back and realize they don't make movies like they used to. By the way, on Prime, watch Children of Giant, it has great interviews of many former cast members and people in Marfa, Texas.
C. S. Ablett Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2017
I was very disappointed when I viewed this Bluray as it looks like an average DVD picture quality and most of the features advertised on the back of the case were not on the actual Bluray. The credits in particular were murky and I really thought that it was a waste of money. Love the movie, though, and do wish that Warners had gone to the trouble of digitally remastering the movie for their Bluray presentation of it. A real rip-off, so buyer beware !
Amazon Customer Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2014
(Updated with uploaded screen shot images of this horrendous digital transfer. These screen shots illustrate the weird blue glow and the complete lack of contrast.) Great movie. The digital transfer to Blu-ray is horrendous. At best the picture is almost as bad as a VHS tape. People and horses have an odd blue glow during the round-up scene at the beginning of the movie, and at other times during the movie. Other outdoor scenes suffer from a terrible lack of contrast & sharpness. It is almost criminal to distribute such a horrendously bad digital transfer given Giant's stellar cast and original production. Pass on this Blu-ray. Stream the movie if you must until an effort is made on a decent digital transfer.
Khristine Jackson Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2020
It was nearly 20 years ago that I saw this movie on T#M network.. I never had the opportunity to watch the entire movie.. Elizabeth Taylor so young and not yet "Regal" until she married the late mega producer Mike Todd. I believe at this time during "Giant" she was married to British actor Micheal Wilding Sr... Rock Hudson what a "dream boat" ..to bad he was gay..because the sons he could have fathered if he had of preferred women? James Dean ..such a complex actor.. for many decades his death has haunted the globe.. Dying so young do to a wreck less bit of speeding..? Now to clear up the rumor ..was he gay as well.? Maybe not ..because he dated many women.. The rumor could have been started because Elizabeth Taylor had a way with gay actor's.. and keeping their "secrets" such her friendship with Montgomery Clift.. ( who was gay). The location scenes were nice ..and the clothes I envied on Miss Taylor.. Mercedes McCambridge played the envious sister... and the thorn in Liz Taylor's character over the run of the ranch... The make-up for aging was okay.. but when people get older they tend to put on WEIGHT..not just grey hair.. Racism in the movie was pointed more towards "Latino's" of Mexican origin..and the director George Stevens didn't pull any punches neither.. The interracial marriage between Jordy jr and the nurse.. .. As well as the diner owner not wanting to serve Mexicans .. It was really eye opening... James Deans character striking it super rich with "oil" aka "Black Gold".. in today's dollars he could be a Billionaire .. It was worth every dollar to watch on Prime..
John R. Fleming Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2015
The Blu-ray picture quality is amazingly bad. It reminds me of watching VHS tapes in the old days. Is there no high quality negative of this great movie to make a digital transfer from? Or does Warner Bros. just not give a damn? Either way, if you already have this movie on DVD, don't waste your money on the Blu-ray. I promise it won't look any better than your DVD. If you don't already own it, then go ahead and buy whichever format (DVD, Blu-ray) is cheapest, because it's still a great movie, if for nothing else than James Dean's performance.
Simon Nutrient Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2018
One of the greatest modern westerns of all time, it truly lives up to the word “epic”. The movie is full of great performances by Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and especially James Dean, in full mumbliness. Plus, Mercedes McCambridge, who received an Oscar nomination for this role. However, the Blu-Ray transfer was terrible, which is why I’m giving it a 4, instead of a 5. There are ghost halos and much below average sharpness. It’s a shame they didn’t pay more attention to such a great film.
James D. Porter Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2015
This review is for the awful transfer and NOT the movie. I just watched the blu Ray copy and I'm so mad! This is one of my fave films but the picture is blurry most of the time and it looks no better than VHS! I thought films had to be remastered for blu Ray but obviously Warner Brothers doesn't care about Giant???

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Since hearing about Elizabeth Taylor’s death, I’ve been thinking about “Giant.” She made that film in 1956; when I saw it, about thirty-five years later, I was fascinated by the film’s fantasies of aging, and why they never became real. The movie follows a few decades in the lives of Bick Benedict, a Texas rancher, played by Rock Hudson; his wife, Leslie, played by Taylor; and Jett Rink, played by James Dean. Taylor was twenty-three when she made the film; Dean was twenty-four. In “Giant” ’s more than three hours, they are transformed from a young, horseback-riding bride and brooding ranch-hand into a gray-haired grandmother and dissolute oil man. Around the time I watched it, Elizabeth Taylor was marrying Larry Fortensky, whom she’d met in rehab, at Michael Jackson’s Neverland. She was about the same age as she was meant to be in the movie, but in the pictures in the tabloids she looked jarringly different from the gracefully aged woman in “Giant.” (Though somehow both versions were beautiful, even if one was more depressing; her beauty may have spoken particularly well to the style of a certain era, one I didn’t especially fetishize, but it was undeniable.) It wasn’t that the movie’s makeup artists and costume designers had gotten it wrong, or didn’t know their craft, or didn’t really make her look old—they did; she might have become that woman, but didn’t.
Dean, meanwhile, never grew old at all, in real life; he died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, before the film even finished shooting and more than a year before it came out, and so the aged version of him is not so much an admonition about how one lives as it was simply very sad.
I was also watching “Giant” a few years after the death, in 1985, of Rock Hudson, from AIDS . He was fifty-nine; until not too long before his death he hadn’t looked so different from the older Bick Benedict. (At the end, he did.) Seeing him on the Texas ranch, entirely beautiful, or in a fist-fight in an diner (see the video above), I understood, as I don’t think I quite had, what with his appearances on “Dynasty,” what it meant to many people it became clear that he had been living as a closeted gay man. He was so visible, and yet, until his body was stricken, so hidden.
Meanwhile, when “Giant” comes up in conversation now, it is often because the town where it was filmed, Marfa, Texas, has become a center for the arts. Peter Schjeldahl has more about that .
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A new book is revealing James Dean’s final days on a volatile set of the 1956 film “Giant” that also starred Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor.
When George Stevens convinced three of Hollywood’s hottest stars to head over to West Texas to create a movie, he couldn’t have predicted it would result in an epic drama that ended in tragedy.
Don Graham, an English professor at the University of Texas, recently published a book titled “Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making of a Legendary American Film.” It dives into the making of the 1956 film “Giant,” which explores the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family.
Graham was given access to all of Stevens’ materials related to “Giant,” and he discovered surprising tales about the film’s origins from the celebrated director.
Those possessions are currently archived at the Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, which serves as the official library for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Graham told Fox News Stevens was eager to ditch Hollywood and instead, shoot in small-town Marfa, Texas, to bring his Western story to life.
“He wanted to be as far away from studio control as possible,” explained Graham. “Marfa, Texas was about that far. It was a long way from Hollywood… Stevens went out to win Texans over because he felt he had to do that, considering it was a Texas film… He could have filmed it in Hollywood, but Hollywood would never look like Texas.”
But Stevens didn’t need to look far to encounter his own tale of jealousy and rivalry. Graham claimed Hudson, then 29, and Dean, 24, clashed on set.
“ Rock Hudson absolutely hated James Dean and vice versa,” he claimed. “They fought all the way through the film. Elizabeth Taylor had to mediate between the two. She became very good lifelong friends with Rock. And she was very good friends with James Dean as well. In a way, the two of them were competing for her affections, just as in the film.”

Elizabeth Taylor ropes George Stevens while Mercedes McCambridge, Rock Hudson, and James Dean look on approvingly.
(Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
Rumors have long persisted that Hudson, who was gay, hit on Dean who rejected his advances. However, Graham said it was Dean’s unconventional style of acting that irritated everyone on set — including Taylor, 23.
“Both Rock and Elizabeth hated James’ methods or antics really,” said Graham. “He wouldn’t really hit the mark where he was supposed to be… He would mumble or do tricks with this little rope that he would carry or pull his hat down.
“He was always busy doing something to capture the reality of his character. But these two were more formally trained to stand, read their lines, hit the mark and take direction.
"James just blew that all off. And that made them really mad. And Stevens really had trouble with James… He would argue with him and James would be late. George said at one point that he would never work with James Dean again. It turned out to be true.”

James Dean
(Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
And it wasn’t just Dean’s attitude that got on Hudson’s nerves. Graham claimed Hudson might have been worried that the actor would steal his leading lady away.
“Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor spent many nights drinking vodka and eating chocolate,” chuckled Graham. “They stayed up until 3 a.m. only to be at work by 6 a.m. Rock really valued her friendship.
"And then James Dean started intervening on that. He would also competitively steal Elizabeth’s affections away from Rock… Rock would then fear that James was stealing Elizabeth Taylor and the film away from him.”
Graham revealed Taylor also developed a close bond with Dean, who confided in her.

Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean.
(Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
In 2011, Daily Beast writer Kevin Sessums released several off-the-record statements made by Taylor from a 1997 interview. She claimed Dean confessed he was molested by his minister at age 11, which haunted him for the rest of his life.
Graham said he wouldn’t be surprised if that was true.
“There are other biographers who felt that could have happened,” he said. “However, there’s no real evidence out there to support that… But I also don’t think Elizabeth Taylor would have made that up.”
Still, he said there was no denying Dean opened up to Taylor when cameras stopped rolling.
“She always listened to his stories,” said Graham. “Dean always sought that mother figure because he lost his own mother at age 9. And Dean’s father was really an aloof, cold, unfeeling person by all accounts, including his son’s. So Dean always sought that motherly figure… He did that to every woman who was friendly with him.”
However, Dean’s life came to a screeching halt when he was killed in a 1955 car crash. He was just 24.

George Stevens (left) with James Dean.
(Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
“He died on a Friday and then on Saturday, they kept shooting,” said Graham. “But Elizabeth Taylor was distraught. She eventually got sick and was hospitalized. It cost them more days. She took it the hardest out of everybody… Rock Hudson broke down in tears… But Elizabeth Taylor was the most devastated of all.”
When Taylor asked Stevens if he could believe such a tragic accident could occur, his response was reportedly, “Yes I can. He had it coming.”
Dean, who loved racing cars, was driving his brand-new Porsche Spyder convertible to a California race. He had completed filming his role for “Giant” and just needed to re-read lines for the scene where he mumbled.
Stevens, who was worried about Dean’s need for speed, had reportedly suspected an accident could have occurred during filming.


(Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
“George Stevens was so worried that he put in the contract that James could not do any racing when he started working on the film,” claimed Graham. “…Out there in Marfa, celebrities were given cars to use while they were in town. But James had his taken away because he would drive too fast for the roads out there.
"When James got that new car, they told him, ‘You can’t drive around in that thing because you’re going to kill somebody.’ But he never paid attention when someone told him that.”
“Giant” was released shortly after Dean’s death — and it became a box office sensation. It also forever changed the lives of Hudson and Taylor, who would go on to reign as leading Hollywood stars.
Stevens, recognized as one of the most important directors in cinematic history, died in 1975 at age 70 from a heart attack. Hudson died in 1985 at age 59 from AIDS-related complications. Taylor followed in 2011 at age 79 from congestive heart failure.


(Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
“This film really made them,” said Graham. “It certainly made Rock Hudson. It confirmed Elizabeth Taylor’s status as a serious actress. And of course, James Dean already had a huge reputation based on his two previous films and then he was dead about two and a half weeks before ‘Giant’ was over.
"Then he became a legend. But they were all very young. And there was a sense of excitement going on. Everyone felt this film was going to be a really huge deal.”
Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com.
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