Giant (1956)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.7/10   

Director:

George Stevens

Escritores:

Edna Ferber (novel)
Fred Guiol (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

24 noviembre 1956 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Romance | Del Oeste

Frase comercial:

From the novel by EDNA FERBER

Plot:

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

Plot Keywords:

Texan | Epic | Rancher | Texas | Cattle

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 4 wins & 12 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Liz was cheated!

Reparto

Elizabeth Taylor	...	Leslie Benedict
Rock Hudson	...	Jordan 'Bick' Benedict Jr.
James Dean	...	Jett Rink
Carroll Baker	...	Luz Benedict II
Jane Withers	...	Vashti Snythe
Chill Wills	...	Uncle Bawley
Mercedes McCambridge	...	Luz Benedict
Dennis Hopper	...	Jordan Benedict III
Sal Mineo	...	Angel Obregón II
Rod Taylor	...	Sir David Karfrey (as Rodney Taylor)
Judith Evelyn	...	Mrs. Nancy Lynnton
Earl Holliman	...	'Bob' Dace
Robert Nichols	...	Mort 'Pinky' Snythe
Paul Fix	...	Dr. Horace Lynnton
Alexander Scourby	...	Old Polo

También conocida como:

Gigante (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

201 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Español

Color:

Color (Warnercolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Spain:T | Australia:G (TV rating) | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | West Germany:12 (f) | South Korea:12 | USA:Approved (PCA #17675) (original rating) | USA:G (re-rating) (1970) | Argentina:Atp | Canada:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | Portugal:M/12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Arizona, USA

Compañía:

Giant Productions

Trivialidades:

The film spent an entire year in the editing suites.

Errores:

Errores cometidos por los personajes (posiblemente errores deliberados por los cineastas): A group of Texan landowners talk about Geronimo as the chief of the Comanche. Geronimo was an Apache.

Citas:

Jett Rink: Everybody thought I had a duster. Y'all thought ol' Spindletop Burke and Burnett was all the oil there was, didn't ya? Well, I'm here to tell you that it ain't, boy! It's here, and there ain't a dang thing you gonna do about it! My well came in big, so big, Bick and there's more down there and there's bigger wells. I'm rich, Bick. I'm a rich 'un. I'm a rich boy. Me, I'm gonna have more money than you ever *thought* you could have -- you and all the rest of you stinkin' sons of ... Benedicts!

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in When Comedy Was King (1960)

Banda de Sonido:

Giant

Liz was cheated!

It's my opinion that Elizabeth Taylor should have at least been nominated for Best Actress. Her aging performance was nothing short of remarkable - especially considering that she was only 25 at the time. Indeed, her older character was even more credible than her youthful one.

On the other hand, I feel James Dean's performance was greatly over-rated.

Now, I don't say that Miss Taylor should necessarily have won that year. Deborah Kerr and Kate Hepburn each turned in very special performances and certainly Ingrid Bergman's win with "Anastasia" was understandable, but to have not even nominated Miss Taylor in her role as Leslie Benedict is simply incomprehensible to me.

It makes me think that perhaps we ought to have an award system that applies only after a picture has been released for 10 years. On the 10th anniversary of a film's release, let the IMDb members vote on all the major award categories (film, actor, actress, supporting, director) and then see how things rate. ;)