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Bigger Than Life (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] - Region A Blu-ray

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Description: 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 th ... (more)
Manufacturer: Criterion
Release date: 23 March 2010
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0715515054713 UPC: 715515054713
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