Giant 1956 123movies

Watch: Giant 1956 123movies, Full Movie Online – Texan rancher Jordan “Bick” Benedict, Jr. (Rock Hudson) visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. While there he meets and falls in love with the owner’s daughter Leslie (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink (James Dean) unfolds across two generations..
Plot: Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict’s disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 39,463
	88% | RottenTomatoes
	84/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 551 Popularity: 14.993 | TMDB

Reviews:

“The legendary epic that’s as big as Texas!”
The plot: Texas ranch owner Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) travels to purchase a prize horse, but falls in love at first sight with the owner’s pampered daughter Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor). He woos and wins her quickly, they marry, then travel back to his isolated ranch.

Leslie, after a rough start, proves herself quite the force of nature. Ranch hand Jett Rink (James Dean) falls into unrequited love with Leslie, uttering, in one scene, one of my favorite lines in the film, something like, “Mrs. Benedict, you sure do look right good enough to eat, yeah, good enough to eat….” (voice trails off and he looks like he’s going to lick his lips) – and then when he strikes it rich with oil, he takes his bitterness out in several ways.

With a stellar supporting cast including Mercedes McCambridge, Sal Mineo, Carroll Baker, and Dennis Hopper, “Giant” is the original miniseries before anyone knew what a miniseries even was…except this is of course a classic film of the big screen, not a TV movie.

Directed by George Stevens, the sprawling epic (201 minutes, but it goes fast, believe me) beautifully covers two generations of family and a variety of issues, including marriage, family, childrearing, social snobbery and racism, the latter two being covered especially well. When in the mood for a well-paced, involved, alternately funny, sad, heartwarming, and emotionally fulfilling epic, “Giant” always fits the bill for me.

My favorite bit of trivia – Liz Taylor and Rock Hudson became fast friends on the set, and indulging together in partying/drinking binges most every night, after filming stopped. In the scene where the two are watching a marriage, the two actors had to stop during the filming several times to take turns going outside to throw up, as both were terribly hungover from the previous night’s revelries.

Sprawling, slow-moving epic about the dying days of cattle ranching
In 1920s, a wealthy Texan cattle rancher (Rock Hudson) travels to East Coast in order to buy a prize horse. There he meets a woman (Elizabeth Taylor), the daughter of his soon-to-be business partner, who he ends up marrying after a quick romance. The movie follows their lives down in Texas as the seasons change and the old ways begin to give ground to the new century.

Giant is an epic. It covers years and years of time and deals with all the prominent themes and problems of those decades. Things like oil business, racial issues, societal status, responsibility of the rich to the poor, and so many others, make an appearance and are addressed in turn. Taylor’s character is the voice of the new age, while Hudson’s is the voice of the old and their interactions are the driving voice of the film.

And it works. It is a very interesting film to follow if you know anything about that particular span of history. The film is over three hours long, and can thus cover a lot of ground and give each subject its due time. Though that can be a problem as well. It is a very slow film, with deliberate, calm pacing. Nothing much really happens most of the time, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that things happen very slowly. Personally I found the film to be perhaps a bit too slow and deliberate, but if old epics are your thing, you’ll definitely get what you’re looking for.

Giant is to be applauded for its vision. It set out to tell a family saga in its full glory and in that regard it definitely delivers. From modern point of view it can a bit tedious, but I cannot in good faith condemn it for that.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 3 hr 21 min (201 min)
Budget 5400000
Revenue 32855818
Status Released
Rated G
Genre Drama, Western
Director George Stevens
Writer Edna Ferber, Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
Country United States
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 16 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Warner Bros. Studio Laboratory, USA (color)
Film Length 5,535 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2022 remaster), Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm