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Bigger than Life

film by Ray [1956]
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  • filming of Rebel Without a Cause
    Nicholas Ray
    / Films of the late 1950s

    …Los Angeles, but its follow-up, Bigger than Life (1956), a fevered depiction of the American dream gone wrong, came to be regarded by many film historians as another of the director’s masterworks. James Mason starred as an ambitious teacher and part-time taxicab dispatcher who becomes addicted to the then-experimental drug…

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    …Los Angeles, but its follow-up, Bigger than Life (1956), a fevered depiction of the American dream gone wrong, came to be regarded by many film historians as another of the director’s masterworks. James Mason starred as an ambitious teacher and part-time taxicab dispatcher who becomes addicted to the then-experimental drug…

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