Giant

Watch Giant (1956) online on iFILM — director George Stevens' sweeping drama starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, running over three hours across the vast landscape of Texas.

Bick Benedict brings home a Maryland bride, Leslie, who turns out to be the most inconvenient thing on his ranch: a woman with opinions. She sees the casual cruelty toward Mexican workers that Bick calls tradition. Meanwhile, farmhand Jett Rink strikes oil on his small strip of inherited land and spends the next decades proving that money alone cannot make a man whole. Dean plays Jett with a coiled fury that makes every scene around him feel like it might combust.

The film landed ten Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and Stevens took home the directing prize. James Dean finished shooting the role weeks before dying in a car crash in September 1955 — Giant became the last film audiences ever saw him make. Stream Giant (1956) on iFILM.