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    Bigger Than Life

    1956 · Drama · 1h 35m

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  1. Sep 9, 2023 · Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray. A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.

    • 95 min
  2. Bigger Than Life (1956) photos, including production stills, premiere photos and other event photos, publicity photos, behind-the-scenes, and more.

  3. 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.

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    • Drama
    • Nicholas Ray
    • 1956-09-05
  4. 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 school teacher and family man whose life spins out of control when he misuses cortisone.

  5. 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.

    • Ed Avery
  6. With its iconic use of '50s decor (that TV, with blaring carnival footage playing at exactly the wrong time), hair-yanking hyperbole, and resonating vision of the dark heart of postwar America, Bigger than Life is a larger influence than anyone has ever guessed.

  7. Jan 21, 2010 · BIGGER THAN LIFE Trailer (1956) - The Criterion Collection. When a suburban teacher and father (James Mason) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows...

    • 3 min
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    • criterioncollection
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