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Bigger Than Life

1956 | 95 min | Drama

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Synopsis

Bigger Than Life is a 1956 American drama film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Mason, Barbara Rush and Walter Matthau. Its plot follows an ailing schoolteacher and family man whose life spins out of control when he misuses cortisone. It is based on a 1955 article by medical writer Berton Roueché in The New Yorker, titled "Ten Feet Tall". In addition to starring in the film, Mason produced it.

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Credits

Producer
James Mason
Director
Nicholas Ray
Screenplay
James Mason, Nicholas Ray, Clifford Odets, Richard Maibaum, Cyril Hume
Director of Photography
Joseph MacDonald
Original Music Composer
David Raksin
Editor

Box office · USD, worldwide

Budget
$1.0M

Cast · 5

Walter Matthau

Walter Matthau

Robert F. Simon

Robert F. Simon

James Mason

James Mason

Barbara Rush

Barbara Rush

Roland Winters

Trailer

2:41

20th Century Fox. Public domain — from Wikimedia Commons, re-encoded and served from our own storage.

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