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 ...

Bigger Than Life exposes the good and bad in cortisone. James Mason has picked a powerful subject for his first 20th-Fox production and delivers it with quite a bit of dramatic distinction in ...

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 ...

A critical and commercial flop upon release, Bigger Than Life has never been issued ... and father Ed Avery (a brilliant James Mason, who also produced) is diagnosed with a rare and potentially ...

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 ...

In Bigger Than Life, the average suburban home becomes ... a frighteningly committed James Mason stars as a teacher who moonlights as a taxi dispatcher in a desperate attempt to provide for ...

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 ...

Bigger than Life' also bravely captures the escalating dehabilitation of any addiction. In a career of great performances, James Mason is particularly good, taking the character on a believable ...

"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 ...