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Bigger than life [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Nicholas Ray.

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Criterion Collection, c2010.

Drug addiction -- Psychological aspects -- Drama.

Suburban life -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 507.

Video Difference legacy collection.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (95 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + booklet (22 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Based on an article in the New Yorker by Burton Roueché.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1956.

DVD special edition features: Audio commentary featuring critic Geoff Andrew ; profile of Nicholas Ray (1977), a half-hour television interview with the director ; new video appreciation of Bigger than life with author Jonathan Lethem ; new video interview with Susan Ray ; theatrical trailer ; plus: a booklet featuring an essay by critic and video maker B. Kite.

2.55:1 aspect ratio.

Includes English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Twentieth Century Fox presents a Cinemascope picture ; music, David Raksin ; conducted by Lionel Newman ; story and screenplay by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum ; director of photography, Joe MacDonald ; produced by James Mason ; directed by Nicholas Ray.

James Mason and Barbara Rush with Walter Matthau, Robert Simon, Christopher Olsen, Roland Winters, Rusty Lane, Rachel Stephens and Kipp Hamilton.

"Though ignored at the time of its 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."--Container.

Medical films (Motion pictures)

Substance abuse films.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Roueché, Berton, 1911-1994.

Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979.

Mason, James, 1909-1984.

Rush, Barbara, 1927-

Matthau, Walter.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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