but the rebel in Ray’s “Bigger Than Life,” released the following year and out on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection this week, is in a distinctly less romantic vein. James Mason ...

Nicholas Ray’s melodrama Bigger Than Life was perhaps his most structured work when it came out in 1956. Starring James Mason (who also produced) in a uncharacteristic — yet riveting — role, the film ...

A great example of this is Bigger Than Life, a highly entertaining 1956 ... and the explosive nature of the psyche. Sponsor Message James Mason stars as Ed Avery, a schoolteacher who lives in ...

Nicholas Ray’s potent 1956 CinemaScope melodrama dealt with the ill effects of cortisone on a frustrated middle-class grammar-school teacher (James Mason ... family life during the 50s.) ...

OPENED NOVEMBER 28, CERT 12A, 95 MINS Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life (1956 ... setting and performance are dazzling, and James Mason, who produced, has never been better as the overworked ...

"ALARMING" First released in 1956 to mediocre reviews, it stars the brooding James Mason, an overworked ... Yet although Bigger Than Life can be read metaphorically as the playing out of murderous ...

Look around the house that teacher James Mason shares with devoted wife Barbara Rush and clean-cut son Christopher Olsen; it's packed with totems of suppressed ambition and rationalised ...