Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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And as a slice of Texas life, Giant is something an audience can really sink its teeth into. As in life, what happens is not so important as how it happens, and thanks to Director Stevens' precise and sensitive control of the whole production -script and setting, color and...
Giant (George Stevens;Warner). Texas, as the saying goes, is a state of mind; and as such, it is not bounded by thirtysix-thirty and the Rio Grande. Indeed, the bestselling 1952 novel by Edna Ferber, on which this picture is based, bellowed from the bookstalls that Texas in modern...
Ferber was telling the truth, it was certainly not the whole truth about Texas. And in the film, though Director George Stevens has pulled some of Author Ferber's wilder punches. Texans will probably still find plenty to holler about. But moviegoers in other parts of the world will...
In mood, in movement, Giant is something the film colony often claims but seldom achieves: an epic. And this epic was achieved by an act of singular artistic courage. At the serious risk of losing the customer's interest-and with it the $5,000.000 production cost of the...
Conrad Aiken contributes an Opening Response: Lord, Lord, give us Thy day, that once more we may be the endless miracle that embodies Thee. And a Wal lace Stevens' poem becomes an Evening Response: We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the...