A New Book Takes a Look at the Legacy of ‘Giant’
How Hollywood came to 1950s Texas with a message of change and emerged with an enigmatic legend.
How Hollywood came to 1950s Texas with a message of change and emerged with an enigmatic legend.
How the essence of the Lone Star State was captured on film.
There’s a scene toward the end of Smokey and the Bandit where a truck driver has just purposely torn the door off of Buford T. Justice’s already roof-less car with the bumper of his big rig. Sheriff Justice goes off on a tirade directed at the disappearing rig that ends
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Director: George StevensPlot: Rancher with East Coast bride sees Texas transformed by discovery of oil.Excerpts from our roundtable discussion:LEAGUE: It’s a deeply flawed movie, but if we’re here to talk about Texas movies, then Giant has to be on the list. I mean, subject material, quintessential Texan characters, independent
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Should Hollywood remake ‘Giant’? On the fortieth anniversary of the filming of the Texas epic, we imagine Brad Pitt playing Jett Rink’s grandson, Quentin Tarantino directing, and other scary scenarios.
Memories of the filming of ‘Giant’ in Marfa, as recalled by a fan who had the best seat in the house.
The quintessential wildcatter fills you in on free enterprise and Texas after oil.
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’