Giant: Top 10
Movie Lines
Giant is a
1956 American drama film, directed by
George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by
Fred Guiol and
Ivan Moffat from
Edna Ferber's
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 Dean's 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
Dean's role.
Plot:
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 post-war 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.
They return to Texas to start their life together on the family ranch, Reata, where Bick's older spinster sister Luz Benedict (Mercedes McCambridge) runs the household. Luz resents Leslie's presence and attempts to intimidate her. Leslie meets Jett Rink (James Dean), a local handyman who works for Luz (and whom Bick despises) and hopes to find his fortune by leaving Texas. Jett becomes secretly infatuated with Leslie.
As Leslie spends time becoming acclimated to the harsh Texas heat, once nearly passing out, she discovers on a car ride with Jett that the
Mexican workers' living conditions in the local town are terrible. After tending to
Angel Obregon II, one of the Mexican children, she presses Bick to take steps to improve their condition. This starts a theme concerning Texans' attitudes towards
Mexicans in general.
When riding Leslie's beloved horse, War Winds, Luz expresses her hostility for Leslie by cruelly digging in her spurs. Luz dies after War Winds bucks her off. In her will, Jett is bequeathed a small piece of land on the Benedict ranch. Bick tries to buy back the land, but Jett refuses to sell. Jett makes the land his home and names it
Little Reata. Over the next ten years, Leslie and Bick have twins, Jordan "
Jordy"
Benedict III (Dennis Hopper as a teenager and young adult) and
Judy Benedict (
Fran Bennett as an adult), and later have a daughter they name Luz
Benedict II (Carroll Baker as an adult).
After spurning the Benedict family's fair offer to buy the land, Jett discovers traces of oil in a footprint of Leslie's. He drills in the same spot and hits a gusher. Drenched in oil, he drives to the Benedict front yard covered in oil and proclaims to the family and their guests that he will be richer than the Benedicts. Jett next acts inappropriately towards Leslie, and this leads to a brief fistfight with Bick before he quickly drives off
. In the years preceding World War II, Jett's oil drilling company continues to prosper.
Determined to continue as a cattle rancher like his forefathers, Bick rejects several offers to drill for oil on Reata.
For more info please see the following link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049261/
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- published: 07 Feb 2016
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