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Mar 23, 2017ba_library rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A really, really loooong movie (3 1/2 hours!) I've been having a James Dean retrospective (he only made three movies!) and he was excellent in this film. Rock Hudson was also great (I usually think of him acting in Doris Day movies) and Elizabeth Taylor also very good. Not really sure what the message was meant to be when it was made in the 1950s. Watching today, it covers sexism (you're my wife, shut up and do as I say even though I know you are intelligent). Racism, most of the Mexican-Americans are referred to as wetbacks and are only servants even though some of them were eventually family members in the movie. Class-ism - rich v. poor, born with money v. self made. So, it covers a lot a subjects, makes you wonder if it would have played better a multi-part miniseries or if it should have been edited down to make the story tighter, but like most things in Texas it is GIANT.