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Monday, 5 January 2009

Bigger Than Life (1956)

Posted on 13:10 by john cena
Highly Recommended
USA
Feature Film
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, Berton Roueché
Cinematographer: Joe MacDonald
Composer: David Raksin
Cast: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Christopher Olsen, Walter Matthau, Robert Simon, Roland Winters

Ray’s quite-unlike-anything-else allegorical melodrama, depicting a meek schoolteacher’s descent into psychosis after he become addicted to a new wonder drug, is a disturbing, frightening, brilliantly acted, and strikingly shot satirical, expressionist minor masterpiece. Iain.Stott
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