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Giant |  | Director: George Stevens
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
Category: Video
Buy Used: $2.78
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Seller: massbookstore
Rating:  125 reviews
Sales Rank: 12103
Format: Color, HiFi Sound
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 202 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
UPC: 085391141433
EAN: 0085391141433
ASIN: B00000F3QZ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Amazon.com
They call it IGiant/I 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. I--Sean Axmaker/I
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 Giant July 12, 2010
Kimberly J. Creedon (Houston, Texas)
Ordered and received this item in a great transaction. Item brand new and still in it's original wrapping. I received this item quickly and overall am very happy with it. Thanks! A+
My Wife loved it. March 9, 2010
Michael Perez (San Antonio,TX)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My Wife loved it. Need I say more? Thanks for your quick response in getting the DVD to us. All delivered and in proper condition.
A REAL CLASSIC "GIANT" March 2, 2010
D. Mahaney
HAD NOT SEEN THIS FILM FOR ABOUT TWENTY YEARS, BUT NOW OWN IT, THIS IS A VERY WELL DONE FILM AND NOT JUST A LOVE STORY BETWEEN ROCK AND LIZ, BUT A WONDERFUL STORY OF TEXAS BEFORE AND AFTER WW11, WITH MANY MANY WONDERFUL CO-STARS. JAMES DEAN NEVER SAW IT COMPLETED. ROCK AND LIZ WERE PERFECT IN THIS FILM ITS TO BAD TODAY ROCK IS MANLY REMEMBER FOR THE CUTE COMEDIES LIKE PILLOW TALK ONCE YOU SEE GIANT ONE CAN SAY ROCK WAS A FINE ACTOR AND WAS EVEN NOM. FOR ACADEMY FOR HIS ROLE IN GIANT.
 Review of product, not of the movie itself December 2, 2009
Paulo (South Dakota)
Just wanted to mention that one of the DVD's in this set had no label on either side. Looks odd, I'm guessing it was a mfr. error, and probably why it was priced low though this "feature" was not mentioned in the description. No problem playing the DVD's though!
Review Of The 1956 Epic 'Giant' (2003 WB) October 24, 2009
Paul N. Nix (Garland, Texas United States)
br / 1.) The audio is pretty good (some of the music is so famous such that anyone born and raised in Texas in the
br / past 50 years probably knows it without even realizing it) but the picture image quality has not fared so
br / well. Another reviewer theorized that the DVD was made from a 3rd or 4th generation copy. About that I don't
br / know but the result is that some of the imagery is not as good as it should be. (Example : In the opening
br / shot a watering pond for cattle (in Texas it's known as a 'tank') is shown. The color is faded and not clear
br / making one wonder how the opening scene looked to theater audiences 50 years ago.)
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br / 2.) I think that some of the acting is overdone and the attempt to 'act like Texans' causes some of the scenes
br / to be almost comical (you have to 'stand back' and think about how the scenes strike you). Now, having said
br / that, I will also say that some of the scenes are so 'classic' that they make up for shortcomings of other
br / scenes. (Example: When James Dean shows-up covered in oil after his first well comes in, it seems exactly
br / what anyone would do when everyone else figured that he would 'lose-his-shirt'.)
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br /The overall 'look-and-feel' of 'Giant' is so much larger-than-life that its strenghts overcome its shortcomings.
br /If heroic music gets you excited, and the thought of a horizon that stretches further than seems reasonable
br /makes you want to get in your car and 'head west', then you've got to see 'Giant'.
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br /- Paul Nix (Oct 2009)
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