What is Bigger Than Life / Wind Across the Everglades about?

BIGGER THAN LIFE, 1956, 20th Century Fox, 95 min. Director Nicholas Ray’s subversively twisted portrait of suburban life centers on a teacher (James Mason) who becomes addicted to cortisone and experiences visionary, tyrannical delusions. WIND ACROSS THE EVERGLADES, 1958, Warner Bros., 93 min. Director Nicholas Ray’s rarely screened drunken masterpiece stars Christopher Plummer as a young game warden in early 1900’s Florida, trying to stop bigger-than-life, outlaw poacher Burl Ives and his gang of cutthroats (including a young Peter Falk) from decimating the wild heron population. Shot on atmospheric and very swampy locations, Ray’s depiction of the frontier surrendering to civilization is worthy of THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS.

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What is Bigger Than Life / Wind Across the Everglades about?: BIGGER THAN LIFE, 1956, 20th Century Fox, 95 min. Director Nicholas Ray’s subversively twisted portrait of suburban life centers on a teacher (James Mason) who becomes addicted to cortisone and experiences visionary, tyrannical delusions.

WIND ACROSS THE EVERGLADES, 1958, Warner Bros., 93 min. Director Nicholas Ray’s rarely screened drunken masterpiece stars Christopher Plummer as a young game warden in early 1900’s Florida, trying to stop bigger-than-life, outlaw poacher Burl Ives and his gang of cutthroats (including a young Peter Falk) from decimating the wild heron population. Shot on atmospheric and very swampy locations, Ray’s depiction of the frontier surrendering to civilization is worthy of THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS.