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Bigger Than Life/Dvd, Criterion Collection, DVD
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$5 - $10, All, Barbara Rush, Berton Roueche, Betty Caulfield, Billy Jones, Christopher Olsen, Clifford Odets, Criterion Collection, Cyril Hume, David Raksin, Drama, James Mason, Jerry Mathers, Kipp Hamilton, Lee Aaker, Lewis Charles, Movies, Movies & TV Prime Day, Movies & TV › Movies, Natalie Masters, Nicholas Ray, Over $10, Portland Mason, Prime Day 10% Off, Rachel Stephens, Renny McEvoy, Richard Collier, Richard Maibaum, Robert Simon, Roland Winters, Rusty Lane, Shawn McCorkindale, Shelley Dvi-Vardhana, Under $5, Virginia Carroll, Walter Matthau, William SchallertThough ignored at the time of it's release, Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life is now recognized as one of the great American films of the 1950s. When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father (James Mason, in one of his most indelible roles) is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot. This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family; that it came in the day of Father Knows Best makes it all the more shocking... and wildly entertaining.