Bigger Than Life (1955) - (Movie Clip) I Felt Ten Feet Tall

Bigger Than Life - (Original Trailer)

Cortisone use drives a father (James Mason) into paranoia in Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life (1956).

Bigger Than Life (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Face It, We're Dull

Financially-strapped schoolteacher Ed (co-writer and producer James Mason) seems anxious as he and suspicious wife Lou (Barbara Rush) wrap a bridge party, Walter Matthau as Wally among the guests, director Nicholas Ray working the Cinemascope screen and interior lighting, in Bigger Than Life, 1956.

Bigger Than Life (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Name The Five Great Lakes

Assured opening from director Nicholas Ray and producer/co-writer/star James Mason, as city schoolteacher Ed Avery, Kipp Hamilton as colleague Pat, Walter Matthau as coach-buddy Wally and Rusty Lane as principal Bob, and a secret partly revealed, in Bigger Than Life, 1956.

Bigger Than Life (1955) -- (Movie Clip) The Prognosis Is Poor

Schoolteacher Ed (producer and co-writer James Mason) still hospitalized with mysterious illness, his wife Lou (Barbara Rush) discovering his secret second job, doctors Ruric and Norton (Roland Winters, Robert Simon) with bad and maybe-good news, in Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life, 1956.