Bigger Than Life
1956 ‧ Thriller/Drama ‧ 1h 35m
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91% · Rotten Tomatoes
After schoolteacher Ed Avery (James Mason) faints and is hospitalized, doctors diagnose him with a fatal arterial illness and tell him he has a few months to live. Ed agrees to an experimental treatment with cortisone, and makes what appears to be...
Release date: August 2, 1956 (USA)
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cinematography: Joseph MacDonald
Producer: James Mason
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios
Based on: "Ten Feet Tall"; by Berton Roueché
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Rating
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A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect.
Bigger Than Life is a 1956 American drama film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Mason, Barbara Rush, and Walter Matthau. Its plot follows an ...
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When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father (James Mason, in one of his most indelible roles) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal ...
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Duration: 3:13
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Subversive film for a supposedly idyllic period in US history. Content collapsed. ... A 'problematic' film from the 50's. Its most salient feature is Jason ...
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Duration: 3:00
Posted: Jan 21, 2010
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This undisputable masterpiece presents in 95 minutes all the major Nicholas Ray themes: an idealistic hero who can't accept his average destiny, the bitter ...
“BIGGER THAN LIFE is a film filled with such contradictions, such paradoxes and confusions of emotion and reason; indeed, these are part of what makes it big ...