Bigger Than Life [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Spain ]
by Nicholas Ray
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Actor: Barbara Rush, Christopher Olsen, James Mason, Robert F. Simon, Walter MatthauDirector: Nicholas Ray
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, PAL, Widescreen
Running Time: 92 unknown-units
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Suevia Films
Movie Reviews of Bigger Than Life [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Spain ]
Movie Review: NICHOLAS RAY, OPUS 13
Summary: 5 Stars
***** 1956. Directed by Nicholas Ray. A teacher, suffering from a rare and painful disease, accepts to take cortisone, a new drug in the 50's, under medical surveillance. Unfortunately, the patient modifies his prescriptions and becomes little by little psychotic. This undisputable masterpiece presents in 95 minutes all the major Nicholas Ray themes: an idealistic hero who can't accept his average destiny, the bitter study of the American way of life and a smart use of the new Technicolor technology, with its new space offered to the directors, to name a few. Some scenes, like the scenes with the mirrors, are already part of Movie History. You can now buy a zone 2 DVD of BIGGER THAN LIFE at Amazon.fr with a perfect copy of the film and very interesting featurettes about the themes handled by Nicholas Ray in this film. A DVD zone your library.
Summary of Bigger Than Life [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Spain ]
Spain released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Biographies, Filmographies, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Adapted from a New Yorker article, Bigger Than Life stars James Mason as schoolteacher Ed Avery. Upon learning that he is suffering from a potentially fatal illness, Avery is more than willing to take the new, untested drug cortisone. At first, the drug proves beneficial, with Avery making an apparently complete recovery. Before long, however, the drug's side-effects transform the mild-mannered teacher into a psychotic and a potential killer. Walter Matthau costars as the family friend who averts tragedy by saving Avery from himself. In later years, director Nicholas Ray expressed the wish that he hadn't mentioned cortisone by name, because the drug was still in its experimental stages and its positive and negative qualities had yet to be completely determined. Ray needn't have worried: because of its downbeat subject matter, Bigger Than Life was a box-office failure. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Venice Film Festival, ...Bigger Than LifeSimilar DVD Movies
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