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Bigger Than Life Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1956
Director: Nicholas Ray
Genre: Drama
Cast: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert Simon, Christopher Olsen, Roland Winters
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Language: English
Release Date: 2010-03-23
Description

Though ignored at the time of its release, Nicholas Ray’s _Bigger Than Life_ is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. 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. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family. That it came in the day of _Father Knows Best_ makes it all the more shocking—and wildly entertaining.