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01 May 2010

"Bigger Than Life" (1956) starring James Mason and Barbara Rush. Just watched this movie and it is EXCELLENT. →[More:]Mason plays a schoolteacher who is proscribed cortisone for a life-threatening illness, and the psychotic side effects (caused when he starts overdosing) turn him into a monster. Their 1950s domestic home is filled with freaky shadows and incredibly tense silences. Mason's performance is one for the history books. Highly recommended.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 18:37 | 3 comments

OOoh. I like James Mason so I will check this out.

posted by gaspode 01 May | 22:20

SPOILER:

Does anyone else who saw this think he'll go back to using at the end?

posted by brujita 01 May | 23:34

ANOTHER SPOILER:

brujita: YES. The doctor said he'd have to go back on the cortisone to stay alive. The ending is kind of a false hope- I mean, the guy already passed himself off as a doctor to get more than he was prescribed. No way will his wife be able to keep a lid on his addiction.

I think the end of the film was a brilliant example of how to deliver a "Hollywood ending" while implying that things probably won't go "happily ever after."

posted by BoringPostcards 02 May | 00:33

← I don't the context of this little gif, || Swan's End: living/dining room before and after pics →

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