1956 - Giant

1956 - George Stevens movie with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean

[@cocho79]

I saw this movie with my father when I was a kid and I thought it was boring. I saw it again as an adult and what a masterpiece. Since then I’ve seen it many times and I enjoy every minute of it.

[@windstorm1000]

Dean said that acting was lonely- one had only ones imagination- but what an imagination he had! So wish he had lived to fulfill more of that brilliant talent- the limit. .certainly the great what could Hav beens in art history.

[@juanitolopez9731]

Jett Rink is the most sympathetic character to this point. He has no malice, he is humble, he has no sentiments of superiority towards the Mexicans. But when he becomes rich and powerful, his philosophy of life changes overnight. He becomes that what he once stood against.

[@Marcusx1980]

He comes across as more likeable yes, but it ls in all honesty established that he is a racist pretty early in the film

[@ffershchhusd]

​@Marcusx1980 Just watched the film the other day and you're right. There is a scene early on when he first gets the land but hasn't struck oil where Leslie compares him to the Mexicans in the sense that he doesn't have much and works hard to better himself like them. He simply gets mad and says he isn't a "wetback" in return.

[@FrankIsAlwaysRight]

@@Marcusx1980true. When Bick’s wife shows compassion for the woman who recently gave birth, he was yeah great, let’s get out of here.

[@gonzalogarcia1446]

What are you onto? He is racist! Since the beginning to the very end.

[@timgardner1217]

@@Marcusx1980shut up you woke idiot. There’s no evidence his character is racist.

[@jr-zo9gi]

A classic scene. It really makes you empathize with James Dean's character. Always on the outside looking in.

[@windstorm1000]

Yes!

[@Nominay]

@Bruno56 He was a great actor.

[@classicgunstoday1972]

My wife describes him more like a snake coveting what others have. Their money, their homes, their wives. Jett always covets what others have. Even when he makes his own fortune, he makes it about them and wanting Benedict’s wife. That’s why he is never happy, why he is always the loser and why he wasn’t even worth hitting

[@BLTKellys]

Leslie is too, even though she’s the wife.

[@raygetard3444]

@@classicgunstoday1972 loser? It's hard to be a loser and a millionaire at the same time lol. Jett Rink was the best character in the entire movie in my opinion.

[@ladylena1918]

I can remember watching this film before I knew about the legend that was James Dean, and loving the actor who played Jett Rink - not being able to take my eyes off him whenever he was on the screen. Only when I was older and I saw "James Dean ; First .American Teenager" did I realise who he was and why I found him so magnetic - I mean aside from his obvious good looks. He was so natural he never looked forced or as if he was acting - a truly great actor. I look at this and his other films (esp EoE) now and often wonder where his life and talent would have taken him. But just look at the quality of work he accomplished in Hollywood in just over a year. He brightened our skies for a brief time just like a shooting star.

[@amberlight5830]

Similar way of waheed murad in Pakistan films.

[@TheRowlandstone73]

Love this film. I watch it once a year without fail. The way it takes you on a journey through the span of 30 years, showing the experiences and growth of the characters, together with the brilliant aging they did to Liz, Rock and Dean, almost makes you believe they filmed it in real time! Also, an interesting fact is that Mercedes McCambridge who played Bick's sister Luz, did the voice of the demon in The Exorcist.

[@claudiatucker5145]

James Dean only made three films before his tragic automobile accident, but they are among the greatest motion pictures ever produced. (Rebel Without A Cause, East Of Eden, and Giant)

[@nobonespurs]

east of eded was dumb

[@RHINOSAUR]

@@nobonespurs- Just like your reply.

[@infonut]

I am one of the few who can't stand Rebel and laugh outloud at some scenes. Giant and East Of Eden however, multiple viewings and most of the dialouge is memorized by now.

[@puichiung2959]

The cow brains making Liz Taylor faint is cinematic gold.😂

[@MTknitter22]

That has turned more than one Texas lady’s stomach, I can tell ya. 🤢

[@rosariohinojos8830]

One time I got sick with some barbacoa tacos I DID NOT KNOW THEY HAD BRAINS ,

[@prevost1974]

Elizabeth Taylor.. the most beautiful woman that ever graced the screen

[@IrishAnnie]

Agree. No other can compare to her beauty.

[@annkow9154]

She was in her prime in 1950s ! Perfect Southern Belle beauty like Vivien Leigh

[@williams.5158]

@@annkow9154 Even though both of them were British?

[@humbertoflores2545]

@@annkow9154 both were from UK, not from US

[@wileecoyote5929]

Hedy Lamar was the most beautiful

[@beverlykorte8581]

James Dean 💕 Brilliant Actor 💕😎👍🏼✌🏼🌹

[@ceciliawyu]

Love seeing the Ranches of TExas, reminds me of the giant farms in outback Australia ...... :) Even the Mexican BBQ....so many similarities to Australian outback cooking ! xoxo

[@senseofstile]

Do they yell "Yeee Hah" in Australia?

[@puichiung2959]

This might sound strange to others, but I've always thought of Australia as the Texas version of the British.

[@L0r3n2]

James Dean doing nothing is gold

[@marcokite]

the king

[@barbaralovenvirth8726]

Got that right

[@Chamsk]

His acting was everything deep and natural

[@Dnez44901]

The magnetism of James Dean in this! Hot in every scene he is in

[@marcokite]

he was an incredible man

[@tarikdtarik9067]

And eliz is like yes but hes too young

[@russellcampbell9198]

Jim, the outsider, empathizes with Liz as the outsider in this scene.

[@kenthomas856]

Hard to imagine Giant without Dean.

[@tommytruth7595]

Pretty much impossible.

[@skyelark155]

Obviously

[@williamcruz3721]

In bed hot n dirty SEX YUMMY

[@fabioignesti4583]

Great Jimmy you was a.Genius.the best actor in the world

[@tinawalton7703]

Jane Withers is so good in this scene, and so sweet. In just a few seconds, her face tells a whole story.

[@tommytruth7595]

Very powerful and great acting, to say the least. And as soon as she heard about Bick, she married Pinky.

[@MTknitter22]

Rock and Elizabeth along with just superior casting like Jane Withers, Mercedes McCambridge, Carroll Baker and many others made this a George Stevens classic forever!

[@TheRexmoon]

Es increible el magnetismo de Dean hasta el punto de robarse cualquier escena donde aparece, aunque solo aparezca sentado sin decir una palabra...

[@sofalugger]

Ms Taylor . .Just Beautiful. .Jimmy Dean, Rock on. . . .

[@thalitaalves947]

Hudson ,Taylor and Dean❤❤❤ perfect!

[@cristianrojas6083]

Por primera vez el canal abierto de la red de Chile giant una gran joya de cine película original clásicos

[@kimnoblitt860]

Oh man I love this scene

[@Angela-sr4rv]

Wonderful Elizabeth. She was pretty with a beautiful eyes, and a great actress❤💙❤💙❤🧡❤💋

[@FrancescaS.]

James died as a beautiful man....Hope he's happy up there

[@FrancescaS.]

Oh I'm religius :) but if your not thats okay too ^-^

[@FrancescaS.]

Brandon M Ahhh thank you, I am indeed young and sometimes people think it's weird that I am not interested in the things that my generation is....But life is short and even James was young when he died....I believe if you have faith you can live in peace and not live in anger and misunderstanding....Well I guess, God Bless you too brother ;3

[@mamatibborscassady9388]

Dean, yet unproven over few years, died DRUNK , soon after making one of the first 'anti drunk driving' commercials..............

[@jmarler1009]

mamatibbors cassady he didn't die drunk. His last "drink" was a coke. Idiot

[@skyelark155]

@@mamatibborscassady9388 stop talking garbage

[@santajuana1069]

Hoy, 30/09/18, se cumplen sesenta y tres años de la partida del querido e inolvidable James Byron Dean, mi recuerdo con todo cariño.

[@jeffreylombardo782]

A movie that should be WAY up the ladder along with Citizen Kane.

[@tommytruth7595]

Very true. It is another example of a movie that Hollywood could not make today.

[@worrywart1311]

Giant is a very enjoyable movie on the level of, say, The Big Country, but in my view not in the same class as Citizen Kane or The Third Man.

[@rudolphwatson1737]

Actors Carroll Baker, Earl Holliman and Elsa Cardenas are the only principle actors still alive from the movie Giant.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

James, & Elizabeth ...steal the show, scene 😃🙏

[@yvonneplant9434]

Both were 23.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

@@yvonneplant9434 23? Interesting ...I assumed Elizabeth was the elder ...thank you 💕 my oh my, talented for 23

[@cristianrojas6083]

Hola muy buenas noches amigo me llamo Cristian rojas esa el una gran joya de cine película original clásicos 1956 con James Dean y Elizabeth Taylor se llama giant ojalá que quieremos el canal del cable TCM por primera vez

[@ledhed5717]

And don’t forget the talented Mercedes McCambridge, who also voiced Pazuzu in “The Exorcist.”

[@infonut]

Mercy is ALWAYS electrifying.

[@enriquetatorres1763]

James Dean que actor tan fantástico y tenía una imagen en la pantalla muy hermosa que lastima que se marchará tan joven

[@saulponce946]

Se marchó a su planeta.

[@barbaralovenvirth8726]

Dean was so damn good..he deserved can the Oscar.

[@yvonneplant9434]

He was nominated, I think. So was Rock.

[@joeomalley2835]

James Dean could make brushing his teeth look cool.

[@joaquimbarros5218]

JAMES DEAM ERA UM ATOR MUITO EXPRESSIVO NO DESEMPENHO DOS FILMES QUE FAZIA OS DOIS QUE VI JÁ MAIS ESQUECI FOI REALMENTE UMA GRANDE PERDA PARA O CINEMA NESSA ALTURA DO SÉCULO PASSADO OUTROS BELÍSSIMOS AUTORES QUE JÁ PARTIRAM RECORDAR TODOS ELES A GINA LOLA A SOFIA LOREM E MUITOS OUTROS.

[@aidagarcia8296]

Mercedes McCambridge owned every scene she was in

[@pack-wr6nq]

she was from my hometown of Joliet Illinois!!

[@Tenavatuokio]

"Mighty glad to meet you" - well, that´s a phrase I would like to use someday.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

I have said similar things in the past or would say this to any dog that I encounter - but as far as saying such words to another human? Not so much.

[@michaelconverse5127]

@@ModMokkaMattibeing mean to another human because you see other humans as mean, even if you’re just meeting them for the first time ?

[@jugoslavgedeon6766]

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[@jugoslavgedeon6766]

Thank's for a like on my coment,from me mine majesty Big King Jugoslav Gedeon

[@torialexander533]

I live in Texas and I love the lone star state

[@jime3281]

Tori Alexander A lone star is what the rest of the country gives Texas. Also, pretty much 80 percent of Texas is hillbilly inbred desert wasteland.

[@waylonmccrae3546]

You must've read it wrong Jim , we are Talking about Texas Here , not California !!! Have a nice day !! 😆

[@toddjohnson5176]

Liz Taylor is easily one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the silver screen. She was absolutely gorgeous.

[@canaldafneadriele]

A beautiful Leslie

[@pz2736]

What a great movie. I always thought Rock Hudson was the epitome of manliness, but who would have thought he was travelling down Hershey highway?

[@TheRowlandstone73]

Doesn't affect my appreciation of him one bit. Great actor, and by all accounts, a genuinely nice guy too.

[@seanabadalich9112]

Just why? His sexuality was no one’s business but his

[@bornabrkic2491]

3:30 - 3:42 - coolest thing I've ever seen

[@marcokite]

coolest thing from THE coolest dude

[@reginaldmclean8013]

My grandma has his autograph from his movie in Mendocino California

[@franksullivan1873]

Truly a great piece of Cinema.

[@ronniebishop2496]

This scene is true to form.

[@Lazaro38Roca2]

City folks will never understand farm life , I wouldn’t waste any time to say no to the food 🥘 lucky people where having a feast , wish I was there .

[@sophiachick3901]

Crazy how no one wanted in the movie wanted to help the Mexicans with the basics of keeping clean except for Leslie. Glad Bick finally came around to standing up for the less fortunate. Different times back then.

[@yvonneplant9434]

He only "came around" because of his grandchild.

[@MTknitter22]

Hey the reason this movie great because Stevens did not skirt the reality of how Mexicans were treated and thought of in Texas for many many decades. I grew up in it and saw it. Really pleased that part of old Texas is gone. Praise God!

[@michaelconverse5127]

There were good people and bad people then and now. Not everyone then or now was racist, and not everyone then or now isn’t.

[@RaymondJones-kh6pp]

James dean was the first rebel great actor and would have been the greatest had he lived l saw him inhis first movie at the bentleigh hoyts theatre in melbourne 1956 and l was 7 years old and he was so different than the other actors a real rebel

[@brentib]

I would listen to James Dean read the yellow pages

[@DavidSalazar-vp3pz]

just got back from Marfa, Tx so we decided to watch Giant. I guess for the time it was a classic, but I don't think it has aged well. It comes off as a over the top depiction of what outsiders thought Texas was like.

[@MariaDalvaRATES]

Eu assistir este filme gostei Ator. Atriz bonita VALE PENA ASSISTIR ❤💙

[@terzofan55]

Sometimes I wish all 3 movies that James Dean made were done by Disney because that way you'll will have someone dressed up as him at American Disneyland or Paris how cool would that be 😃😃😃

[@ModMokkaMatti]

That sounds absolutely horrid. Disney would have likely driven Dean to absolute madness, because that's what they have come to epitomize.

[@josuesdad]

This part of the movie was filmed in marfa ,Texas. I been there check it out in my instagram acct. @manny4ya

[@fabioignesti4583]

Rest in peace

[@ddave7026]

"Real Mezican Barbacoa"...SO GOOD!

[@DieGwinners]

THANKFUL ...

[@danielsalinas6683]

I love this scene because of the barbacoa

[@JohnDoeUgly]

Came here, because Dee Rees' film "Mudbound" was compared to his work in an article. I don't see the comparison. She's EPIC.

[@dircetecedor3271]

filme lindo recomendo os mejhores dos mehores

[@shawnoneil2046]

Obviously, this is the movie that started "DALLAS"...

[@alanstrong55]

Beauty was the word. Liz was a doll.

[@willmiller9594]

This movie is for entertainment and of another time, not about discrimination by race.

[@cqtaylor]

Really? I saw Giant, and discrimination was definitely a theme in the final third of the movie.

[@tommytruth7595]

Yes, the Eastern-elite liberal Edna Ferber could not have written the novel without interjecting her viewpoint about what she perceived as discrimination.

[@valery9599]

Will Miller if you are white yes you are right!

[@tommytruth7595]

And today, those "crude and backward people" are doing quite well while the North and East part of this country is a gray, bankrupt, rust belt, toilet of an area.

[@ceciliawyu]

Yes, it is. Beck and Leslie have mixed race Grandchildren. Jett was a racist bastard. Beck gets into a fight with a restaurant owner for being racist arseholes.... So if you don't think this is about race, you should stick your head back in the sand! Stupid!

[@lolatorres8172]

Thats some real Texas BBQ.

[@vernwallen4246]

Did you notice no seats for the crowd??

[@tommytruth7595]

And Texas BBQ is the only REAL BBQ.

[@JavierFlores-cw8fw]

james dean reminds me of captain sparrow

[@sfenodonte]

If I remember well towards the end of the 70s and early 80s, we thought of a sequel. It was an idea to compete in Dallas. Too bad nothing was done ....

[@nestorvilla1525]

Sfenodonte: Actually the tv series Dallas was based on Giant, look prejudice, pride, empowering, money, racial profiling and discrimination and social class!!

[@armandomex1980]

I World like to watch this movie but I cant do that in youtube, Dios anyone know where I can enjoy this great film? Greeting from México.

[@CliffBronson1212]

Greatest invention? Indoor plumbing ...who wants to go back to the outhouse? Nobody 😅

[@captinbeyond]

My god, somebody plant a tree there once in a while how bout it

[@dircetecedor3271]

un empregado se torna milionario do petroleo bonfilme un dos mehores recomendo assistir umas sen vezes

[@floydcarbunkel4247]

My town today. Is different. But just barely

[@antohernandez2397]

liz hermosisima

[@motorcitymanman7711]

Shade tree?? Whats that??

[@ddave7026]

4:20 🌞 pretty much all Texans, when out of state people bring up the Heat 4:35...yep.

[@vernwallen4246]

Liz said that she fell head over hills for Rock but he was too busy trying too frig Jimmy! lol

[@blueberrycobbler]

vern wallen Does the nonsense ever stop on that fucking rumor?...Dean and Rock despised each other and has been sourced many times over by colleagues.

[@MTknitter22]

No Liz never said that. She was good friends with Rock and Dean, that’s it. A very warm-hearted lady.

[@williams.5158]

Luz just needs to chill.

[@PoetMarinerRay]

I read that Paul Newman got beat out by James Dean for the role in Giant.

[@blueberrycobbler]

ray johns ...the best thing that ever happened to Newman was when Dean died...Dean always beat him out on roles when Newman screen tested against him. Newman only was able to do The Silver Chalice because Dean turned it down, and wisely so. Newman’s breakthrough role was the result of Dean’s death - Someone Up there Likes Me.

[@AnnaLVajda]

He was Hud though.

[@katotakashi4561]

伝説として残るにはそれなりの代償が必要

[@yvonneplant9434]

It's still a terrific movie...even now. Very topical too.

[@bigblockjalopy]

"still" as if movies got bette over the years.... This movie is getting better every year, since about everything today is complete garbage

[@yvonneplant9434]

@@bigblockjalopy You are using one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century .... on your phone, laptap or tablet. Yeah, everything sucks. Being so negative means you're depressed and need help.

[@bigblockjalopy]

@@yvonneplant9434 what was the subject? Movies. So your post makes No sense at all. What have inventions to do with crappy new movies? And when were phones, PCs and about everything today invented? Right, everything before 1970. So?

[@bigblockjalopy]

@@yvonneplant9434I'm afraid, you can't be helped

[@yvonneplant9434]

It's almost 70 years old. And it is still a great, topical film.

[@mariorockfild9559]

É nessa horas que me veem uma vontade grande de aprender inglês...aff..

[@sterlingcampbell2627]

That's how u bar be que💯

[@pitsburg11]

Liz Taylor 😍

[@billthestinker]

Poor Dean he could never get Brando out of his brain

[@marcokite]

yet James was the greater actor and the greater man

[@garyv2196]

No-Rocks Hudson was playing straight.poor girl

[@jaya.h5605]

Elizabeth Taylor stole the show by performing a master piece far ahead from James Dean and Rock Hudson

[@larry1824]

Terrific till Jett gets old

[@Emick1978]

So is James dean jock Ewing

[@vice4134]

OH MAN, NO FREAKING CLOSED CAPTIONS??? TWO THUMBS DOWN!!! 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

[@lekhai9407]

Jame dean có xe riêng nên lừoi ra ngoài nhà quá

[@lisajones2783]

Why isn’t it showing the full movie

[@MTknitter22]

It was meant to be only a vlip

[@ljc6535]

What is this film about ..never seen it.

[@gooniegoogoo8673]

Is this the house from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre??? 1:49

[@tommytruth7595]

No. When they filmed that movie, that house had fallen down. And it was only a facade, by the way. Interior scenes were filmed in Hollywood.

[@williamkelly6319]

This is a great film but it's also very negative cuz it's showing how things were and what people will do for money. I'm glad the 1950s are behind us. What an awful time.

[@thegodfatherpartiiiandyes3714]

there will be blood was shot in this territory too interesting

[@장혜경-f1o]

인생영화

[@floydcarbunkel4247]

Texas,1932

[@buhocomunistarojo6513]

¿por que gritan como nosotros?

[@hadleymanmusic]

What about that house is it real?

[@annakimborahpa]

No, it's just a three sided facade. The interior house scenes were filmed in Hollywood.

[@MariaConcha-b5y]

O Gigante não é "assim! Assassinaram o filme original!😢

[@Flashbang83]

the thing about this movie that was so brushed over was when Rock Hudson character pulls up to their ranch he tells his new wife that she is a Benedict now, in other words she doesn't have to treat the Mexicans with respect. because she was being too nice to the Mexicans that where trying to welcome her, she kept saying" gracias, gracias". The Mexicans in this movie where treated like crap. and the sick baby scene was so sad! Benedict didnt even want the doctor to visit the sick baby. even when they started drilling for oil and had even more money the Mexican labor camp was still like crap. that statement the sister made was total BS "I know how to handle Mexicans, being doing it all my life, they sit around on their honkers all day if I didn't keep after them". I was like WTF! was it like this when the movie was written? was the writer trying to portray them as arrogant racist? This movie really pissed me off!! But. in the end total carma got them, sister dead, son marries a Mexican gal, Mexican grand child, Big Dick gets his ass beat, I was like hell yea!!!

[@AnnaLVajda]

He probably just did not want the help thinking his wife was there to be their sympathizer they are farm workers and his wife should stay out of business he did not want her discussing politics either. It's about keeping everyone in their place her too. Racism was not the only issue in those days. That's why Deans character is so attractive he would not be as possessive and an opportunity for her to rebel against her husband if she wanted to a hard temptation to resist.

[@ceciliawyu]

So you don't see him learning from it and standing up for his mixed race Grandchildren and a Mexican family as Redemption whereas arseholes like Jett and the Diner guy are still alive, evil old men voting for Trump, destroying America..... ONLY Karma here is that in 2020, their lives are destroyed by the Jett type and Beck and Leslie's mixed hispanic Grandchildren are absolutely Fine!