Bigger than Life [videorecording]
2007
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This combination of searing melodrama and subversive social critique is one of the key American films of the 1950s, a high point in the careers of lead actor James Mason and director Nicholas Ray. Mason gives one of his best ever performances as Ed Avery, a happily married schoolteacher who agrees to take a new 'miracle drug' when diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease. It is not long before the medication begins producing malevolent and murderous side-effects that bring to the fore all of Ed's long-repressed frustrations with his life. Barbara Rush plays Ed's devoted wife, Christopher Olsen is his cruelly punished son and Walter Matthau appears as his faithful colleague.
Main title:
Bigger than Life [videorecording] / producer, James Mason.
Author:
Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979, directorRaksin, David, musicMason, James, 1909-1984, actorRush, Barbara, 1927-2024, actorMatthau, Walter, actor
Imprint:
BFI, 2007.
Collation:
1 videodisc (91 min.) : col.
Notes:
Extras to be confirmed, Region 2, Ratio (1:2.35 CinemaScope), Enhanced for WideScreen TV, Languages (English), Sound (Dolby Mono), Booklet.Made in 1956.Credits: music, David Raksin.DVDN.Credits: director, Nicholas Ray; writer, Cyril Hume; writer, Richard Maibaum; music, David Raksin.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, Robert F Simon, Christopher Olsen, Roland Winters, Rusty Lane, Rachel Stevens, Kipp Hamilton.
Audience:
BBFC code: 12.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.437
Language:
English
BRN:
912870
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