James Mason is the picture of small-town rectitude, a soft-hearted teacher with a modest house, wife and child, until a life-threatening illness puts him on regular doses of the recently ...

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 as ...

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.

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 ...

Sean Connery made a handful of great movies and, in James Bond, created one of the half dozen most indelible characters in film history.

Yet although Bigger Than Life can be read metaphorically as the playing out of murderous desires, it retains an emotional force because of the intensity by which Mason conveys his character's ...

Nicholas Ray’s potent 1956 CinemaScope melodrama dealt with the ill effects of cortisone on a frustrated middle-class grammar-school teacher (James Mason) at about the same time that the first ...

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 ...

In a performance that makes his later turn as a debonair pedophile in Lolita look like bobbysoxer-friendly froth by comparison, a frighteningly committed James Mason stars as a teacher who ...

Afflicted with sudden, crippling pains, otherwise jubilant, well-liked teacher, husband, and father Ed Avery (a brilliant James Mason, who also produced) is diagnosed with a rare and potentially ...

James Mason, a prominent neo-Nazi, advocates waging war against "the system." But he lives in a government subsidized apartment in Denver and eats at soup kitchens.