Giant

Adaptation of the novel by Edna Ferber.

A large part of the scene was shot near the town of Marfa, Texas, including the desert plains.

The prototype Jetta Rink was really living the oil tycoon Glenn Herbert McCarthy (1907-1988). The writer Edna Ferber met McCarthy when he lived in Houston at the Shamrock hotel, which has received the name of Emperador.

Director George Stevens wanted to take Alan Ladd's role on the Rink, but his wife was advised not to approve Ladd in the role. She moved to James Dean. In order to play scenes with Jetta at an older age, James Dean hair cut and dyed your hair gray. At the end of the film there is a scene in which the drunken hero Dean delivers a speech at the Banquet. Among the former colleagues and admirers of Dean, this scene is called "the Last supper", as it was the last scene filmed before the unexpected death of the actor. Dean so hard he mumbled, feigning a drunken that the installation scene had to be overdubbed with another actor, Nick Adams. Because of this picture almost a year spent in the editing room.

William Holden was the main candidate for the role of BICK Benedict. George Stevens gave Rock Hudson, eventually plays the role of Benedict, the choice of a partner for the role of Leslie Elizabeth Taylor or grace Kelly. Hudson chose the first.

Barbara Barry played his first movie role in "Giant." Actress Carroll Baker on-screen daughter Elizabeth Taylor is actually a year younger than the "mother."

Studio Capitol Records, released on the CDs part of the soundtrack, written under the leadership of Dmitry Temkin orchestra Warner Brothers, with the help of digital processing was later reinstated compositions and published them on CD-ROM along with two tracks recorded with ray Randomfrom.

In 2005, the film was placed on the national register of films, with "cultural, historical or aesthetic significance."