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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569706903
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Extra tracks, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 36
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 012569706903
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 31, 2005
Running Time: 201 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 24, 1956
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Product Description:
Giant is a movie of huge scale and grandeur in which three generations of land-rich Texans love swagger connive and clash in a saga of family strife racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly rich oil tycoons. It's also one of the most beloved works of director George Stevens who won an Academy AwardO* for this film one of 10 Oscar nominations** the film earned.Running Time: 201 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569706903
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They call it Giant because everything in this picture is big, from the generous running time (more than 200 minutes) to the sprawling ranch location (a horizon-to-horizon plain with a lonely, modest mansion dropped in the middle) to the high-powered stars. Stocky Rock Hudson stars as the confident, stubborn young ranch baron Bick Benedict, who woos and wins the hand of Southern belle Elizabeth Taylor, a seemingly demure young beauty who proves to be Hudson's match after she settles into the family homestead. For many the film is chiefly remembered for James Dean's final performance, as poor former ranch hand Jett Rink, who strikes oil and transforms himself into a flamboyant millionaire playboy. Director George Stevens won his second Oscar for this ambitious, grandly realized (if sometimes slow moving) epic of the changing socioeconomic (and physical) landscape of modern Texas, based on Edna Ferber's bestselling novel. The talented supporting cast includes Mercedes McCambridge as Bick's frustrated sister, put out by the new "woman of the house"; Chill Wills as the Benedicts' garrulous rancher neighbor; Carroll Baker and Dennis Hopper as the Benedicts' rebellious children; and Earl Holliman and Sal Mineo as dedicated ranch hands. --Sean Axmaker
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Ordered and received this item in a great transaction. Item brand new and still in it's original wrapping. I received this item quickly and overall am very happy with it. Thanks! A+
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My Wife loved it. Need I say more? Thanks for your quick response in getting the DVD to us. All delivered and in proper condition.
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HAD NOT SEEN THIS FILM FOR ABOUT TWENTY YEARS, BUT NOW OWN IT, THIS IS A VERY WELL DONE FILM AND NOT JUST A LOVE STORY BETWEEN ROCK AND LIZ, BUT A WONDERFUL STORY OF TEXAS BEFORE AND AFTER WW11, WITH MANY MANY WONDERFUL CO-STARS. JAMES DEAN NEVER SAW IT COMPLETED. ROCK AND LIZ WERE PERFECT IN THIS FILM ITS TO BAD TODAY ROCK IS MANLY REMEMBER FOR THE CUTE COMEDIES LIKE PILLOW TALK ONCE YOU SEE GIANT ONE CAN SAY ROCK WAS A FINE ACTOR AND WAS EVEN NOM. FOR ACADEMY FOR HIS ROLE IN GIANT.
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Just wanted to mention that one of the DVD's in this set had no label on either side. Looks odd, I'm guessing it was a mfr. error, and probably why it was priced low though this "feature" was not mentioned in the description. No problem playing the DVD's though!
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1.) The audio is pretty good (some of the music is so famous such that anyone born and raised in Texas in the
past 50 years probably knows it without even realizing it) but the picture image quality has not fared so
well. Another reviewer theorized that the DVD was made from a 3rd or 4th generation copy. About that I don't
know but the result is that some of the imagery is not as good as it should be. (Example : In the opening
shot a watering ... Read More
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