Dave Karger Intro - Giant (1956)

Giant - (Original Trailer)

A Texas ranching family fights to survive changing times in Giant (1956) starring James Dean, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor.

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Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You Are The Boss...

Escorted by hired-hand Jett (James Dean), Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor) again shows unorthodox compassion for Hispanic help, visiting Mrs. Obregon (Pilar Del Rey) at "Little Reata" in Giant, 1956, George Stevens' film from the Edna Ferber novel.

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) That Sure Is A Beautiful Animal

Director George Stevens opens his treatment of Edna Ferber's novel, Texan Bick (Rock Hudson) collected in 1920's Maryland by horse breeder Lynnton (Paul Fix), as dazzled by daughter Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor) as the stallion he's come to buy, in Giant, 1956, with James Dean and Carroll Baker.

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Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You Are An Odd One

Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor), new bride of Texas rancher Bick, in a forthright talk while on errands with hired hand Jett (James Dean), director George Stevens interjecting a scene with the sister-in-law (Mercedes McCambridge) teaching the downtrodden Angel (Victor Millan) a lesson, in Giant, 1956.

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You're Gonna Meet Some Folks

Newlywed Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor) on her first morning at Reata, with rugged sister-in-law Luz (Mercedes McCambridge) whom she’s just met, who sets up a social gauntlet, with husband Bick (Rock Hudson), featuring Monte Hale, Charles Watts and especially Jane Withers as Vashti, Jett (James Dean) brooding, in George Stevens’ Giant, 1956.

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Mr. JETEXAS Himself

Christmas time in Texas, early 1940’s, now-patriarchal rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson), with bouncy daughter Luz II (Carroll Baker) receives ex-employee Jett Rink (James Dean), now oil-rich from land willed to him by Bick’s late sister Luz, and is finally willing to discuss drilling on his own land, in Giant, 1956.

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) So Fascinating And Uncouth

After maybe the biggest single leap in time, still before WWII, the Texan Benedict kids have grown up to be Carroll Baker as Luz II, and Dennis Hopper and Fran Bennett as twins Jordan and Judy (Earl Holliman her boyfriend), perplexing their parents Bick and Leslie (Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor), in Giant, 1956.

Giant (1956) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Tough Texian Now

Having fainted the day before, bride Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor) making a better show for rancher husband Bick (Rock Hudson), director George Stevens proving the scale of his shoot outside Marfa, twisted sister Luz (Mercedes McCambridge) worrying, James Dean taking orders, in Giant, 1956.