Giant 1956

Giant 1956 - Director: George Stevens
James Dean, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Dennis Hopper, Carroll Baker






















In the 1930s, Bick Benedict is the owner of a mammoth Texan cattle ranch which has made him one of the wealthiest men in the state. On a visit to Maryland to buy a horse, he meets a beautiful young socialite, Leslie, and asks her to marry him. After the wedding, the couple settle at Bick’s ranch but it isn’t long before the arguments begin. Leslie is moved by the plight of the poor Mexican workers and insists that they receive proper medical attention, to the disgust of Bick who regards the Mexicans as a lower caste. Their marriage is strained further when one of Bick’s cattlemen, Jett Rink, begins to take an interest in Leslie. When Bick’s sister, Luz, dies after being thrown from the horse that Bick recently bought, she bequeaths a patch of land to Jett. Bick is incensed and tries to buy the land off Jett, unsuccessfully. Jett’s decision to keep the land soon pays dividends when he finds that it is rich in oil. Jett’s oil drilling company makes the former ranch hand incredibly wealthy and J.R. (as he is now known) is soon at the head of a business empire the like of which Texas has never seen. Realising that his son has set his sights on becoming a doctor rather than taking over his ranch as he had hoped, Bick has no choice but to follow Jett’s example. The former rivalry between the two men comes to a head when Jett begins dating Bick’s daughter...