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Giant [videorecording] / Warner Bros. presents a George Stevens Production ; screenplay, Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat ; producer, George Stevens and Henry Ginsberg ; director, George Stevens.

Stevens, George Cooper, 1904-1975 (Added Author). Ginsberg, Henry. (Added Author). Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968 Giant. (Added Author). Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932- (Added Author). Hudson, Rock, 1925-1985 (Added Author). Dean, James, 1931-1955 (Added Author). Warner Bros. (Added Author). Warner Home Video (Firm) (Added Author). Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Judith Evelyn, Paul Fix. (Cast).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0790771489
  • Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Widescreen ed. ; two-disc special ed.
  • Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Based on the novel by Edna Ferber.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.
Special features: disc 1. audio commentary by film critic Stephen Farber, screenwriters Ivan Moffat and George Stevens Jr.; introduction by George Stevens Jr.; George Stevens: Filmmakers who knew him -- disc 2. Memories of Giant, documentary; Return to Giant documentary; New York premiere TV special; Hollywood premiere featurette; project kickoff newsreel; behind the cameras segments; original/reissue theatrical trailers; production notes, production stills and documents galleries; director filmography; awards notes; documentary.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Music, Dimitri Tiomkin.
Participant or Performer Note:
Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Judith Evelyn, Paul Fix.
Summary, etc.:
Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
Target Audience Note:
Rated G.
System Details Note:
DVD.
Language Note:
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
English or French language tracs; English, French or Spanish subtitles.

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Genre: Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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0 current holds with 1 total copy.

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