Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the... see more
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the... see more
The first half of the movie promises to be a great western, however, as you advance through this three hour behemoth of a movie, you slowly realise that there's no real character progression, Rock Hudson just goes "I was bad but now I'm good" overcoming his racism in one second and James Dean goes the other way around once he finds oil. It's only a well-known movie because James Dean died a couple of days after filming ended, definitely a forgettable film by all standards.