Carroll Baker News

The film of the week is called "Giant," and gigantic it is. It goes on for three hours and eighteen minutes - or only a little less than the film time of the recent "War and Peace". It was taken from a novel by Edna Ferber about three generations of Texans.

MGM // 1958 // 166 Minutes // Not Rated Reviewed by Judge Clark Douglas // November 21st, 2011 View Judge Douglas's Dossier E-mail Judge Douglas Printer Friendly Review James McKay is a former New England ship captain who's decided to make a new life for himself in the wild west.

We probably all remember movies from our childhood that marked us in some way. One shot from one film has never left me: a near-naked Carroll Baker sitting in a chair in the middle of a desert, watched by a group of heavily perspiring men.

Upon its 1956 release, Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams' satiric film about lust, Baby Doll , was condemned by almost everybody.

Hoboken International Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Carrol Baker, left, with HIFF founder Kenneth Del Vecchio and Blanche Baker, star of Del Vecchio's "The Life Zone," at Cedar Lane Cinemas in Teaneck Thursday night.