Nicholas Ray’s “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955) laid down the template for teenage rebellion in the 1950s, but the rebel in Ray’s “Bigger Than Life,” released the following year and out ...

Bigger Than Life James Mason has picked a powerful subject for his first 20th-Fox production and delivers it with quite a bit of dramatic distinction in carrying out the supervisory duties and ...

A maverick of the 1950s Hollywood system, with Johnny Guitar and Rebel Without a Cause already under his belt earlier in the decade, Nicholas Ray’s melodrama Bigger Than Life was perhaps his most ...

James Mason (left) plays schoolteacher Ed Avery in Bigger Than Life. His son, Richie, played by Christopher Olsen, watches as his father's personality changes after taking cortisone pills.

Bigger Than Life NR • 1 hour 35 min • 1956 by Jonathan Rosenbaum October 15, 2009 August 24, ... (James Mason) at about the same time that the first wave of “wonder” drugs hit the market.

Welcome re-release for this magnificent Nicholas Ray/James Mason collaboration. Skip to main content; Access keys help; Home: ... Bigger Than Life is the American Beauty of 50s cinema.

James Mason has a truly fine bad ... Bigger Than Life has never been issued on any commercial video format in the U.S. and has stayed in circulation chiefly by virtue of occasional airing on ...

In Bigger Than Life, ... a frighteningly committed James Mason stars as a teacher who moonlights as a taxi dispatcher in a desperate attempt to provide for his family and subsidize his sad little ...

Read the Empire Movie review of Bigger Than Life. Jean-Luc Godard ranked this among the ... Look around the house that teacher James Mason shares with devoted wife Barbara Rush and clean ...