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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 ailing schoolteacher and family man whose life spins out of control when he misuses cortisone. [2]
Bigger Than Life: Directed by Nicholas Ray. With James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert F. Simon. A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.
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 affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot.
Bigger than Life (1956) might be the most disruptive and unsettling of them all, while still being an ostensibly safe case-study adaptation of a New Yorker article, in which a real-life schoolteacher is made psychotic by his pioneering prescription to cortisone.
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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...
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A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity. Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries.
Jan 21, 2010 · When a suburban teacher and father (James Mason) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug....
Mar 25, 2010 · Directed by Nicholas Ray, the 1956 film Bigger Than Life stars James Mason as a schoolteacher who experiences wild mood swings and psychotic episodes after becoming addicted to his arthritis ...
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
