Bigger Than Life (1956) | |
| Director(s) | Nicholas Ray |
| Producer(s) | James Mason |
| Top Genres | Drama, Film Adaptation |
| Top Topics | Book-Based |
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Bigger Than Life Overview:
Bigger Than Life (1956) was a Drama - Film Adaptation Film directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by James Mason.
SYNOPSIS
Mason produced this dark psychodrama in which he stars as a small-town teacher who gets hooked on an experimental wonder drug. The film observes the resulting unraveling of his life. The drug causes ego inflation and soon his relationships with his wife and his son become abusive.
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Bigger Than Life (1956): Nicholas Ray and George Mason Fit The Bill
By 4 Star Film Fan on Dec 10, 2019 From 4 Star FilmsJames Mason gleaned the idea for Bigger Than Life from a contemporary article featured in The New Yorker by a medical writer named?Berton Rouech?. He?detailed the side effects of the drug cortisone featured in real-life horror stories. The title is certainly far from a misnomer and James Mason gives... Read full article
Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray)
By Andrew Wickliffe on Oct 5, 2018 From The Stop ButtonDespite producing the film himself, top-billed James Mason doesn?t have the best part in Bigger Than Life. Instead, Barbara Rush?as his suffering wife?gets it. Mason?s a man with a life threatening chronic illness who has to take special medication. Slowly?though not too slowly?that medication start... Read full article
Bigger Than Life (1956)
By Beatrice on Apr 4, 2016 From Flickers in TimeBigger Than Life Directed by Nicholas Ray Written by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum from an article by Burton Roueche 1956/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation First viewing/Netflix rental #323 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Nicholas Ray makes this?more than an expose on the dan... Read full article
Bigger than Life, Nicholas Ray, 1956
By Aaron West on Mar 23, 2015 From Criterion BluesMar 23 Posted by aaronwest Nicholas Ray had an uncanny ability at capturing the social isolation and detachment of certain groups during the 1950s, that contrasted with the pristine, manufactured image of the obedient nuclear family as seen on TV. He played around in a variety of genres, such as th... Read full article
Bigger than Life, Nicholas Ray, 1956
By Aaron West on Mar 23, 2015 From Criterion BluesMar 23 Posted by aaronwest Nicholas Ray had an uncanny ability at capturing the social isolation and detachment of certain groups during the 1950s, that contrasted with the pristine, manufactured image of the obedient nuclear family as seen on TV. He played around in a variety of genres, such as th... Read full article
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Quotes from
Ed Avery: Childhood is a congenital disease - and the purpose of education is to cure it. We're breeding a race of moral midgets.
Ed Avery: [of wife Lou] It's a shame that I didn't marry someone who was my intellectual equal.
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Facts about
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 11 seconds
Marilyn Monroe, who was friends with Nicholas Ray and shooting Bus Stop at an adjoining stage at 20th Century Fox, shot a brief cameo as a nurse during a hospital sequence. Her scene was deleted because the studio was afraid that Monroe would use this cameo as the second film she owed under her contract.
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