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Artist Laura Reynolds (Elizabeth Taylor) prefers to home-school her son, Danny (Morgan Mason), but when the child welfare department intervenes and demands that the boy attend a proper educational institution, Laura bypasses public school in favor of an Episcopal boarding school run by minister Dr. E dward Hewitt (Richard Burton). Although married with kids, Hewitt develops an attraction to Laura, and the two begin an affair, but they're soon discovered by Hewitt's wife, Claire (Eva Marie Saint). Initial release :  23 June 1965 ( USA ) Director :  Vincente Minnelli Featured song :  The Shadow of Your Smile Music composed by :  Johnny Mandel Screenplay :  Dalton Trumbo ,  Michael Wilson ,  Louis Kamp ,  Irene Kamp This movie is set in a place where I have fond memories:  Monterey, California.  The Big Sur is the witness to their love, wrong or not.   It stars former husband...

Wealthy Texas rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) shakes things up at home when he returns from a trip to the East Coast with a love interest, the refined Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor). Bick and Leslie get married, but she clashes with his sister, Luz (Mercedes McCambridge), and wins the admirat ion of the ambitious young Jett Rink (James Dean). Bick and Jett form a tense rivalry that continues to surface as the years pass and fortunes change in this sweeping drama.-WWW Initial release: October 10, 1956 (New York City) Director: George Stevens Running time: 3h 21m Story by: Edna Ferbe r (1952 novel of the same title) Screenplay: Fred Guiol , Ivan Moffat Giant is an epic that after watching for a second time I told myself, "Never again!"  I guess you should never say never.   I was a teenager when I first watched this.  Why did I watch it?  I was sort of reading about the life and times of the three main characters: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson an...