Giant

Part of the epic, sprawling, gorgeous film about oil families from rugged West Texas was filmed outside Marfa during June and July 1955. The cast — including Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean — moved to Marfa to film, and the façade of the Victorian mansion followed by train to the fictional 500,000-acre Reata ranch and was lashed to telephone poles to hold it upright in its two-dimensional splendor. The skeleton of the façade can still be seen along I-90.