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Name: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Released: 1958-9-20
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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1h 48m
1958

97%

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Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman star in the classic screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. As the family of a wealthy Southern patriarch (Burl Ives--The Big Country) informs his children that he is dying of cancer, lies and secrets surface that threaten to rip the family apart. The doctors say the growing cancer is in remission. One self-seeking son claims to love his father. And favorite son, Brick (Newman--Road to Perdition), drinks, won't have sex with the beautiful wife (Taylor--Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) who adores him...and refuses to honestly confront the reason why.

Director:

Richard Brooks

Producer:

Lawrence Weingarten

Writer:

Richard Brooks, James Poe

Cast:

Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

97%

Critics Consensus: Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor are at the height of their glamor and performing prowess in this feverish adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, with a subtext of sexual repression providing an electric undercurrent.

Reviews

The Catholic World

Moira Walsh

The success of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof more probably rests on the straight-forward grounds that it is a strong, well-acted drama and more especially that its theme... has a tragic pertinence for many contemporary audiences.

Brimming with Southern personality, big but fitting performances, and a script with a bite, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is as mesmerizing today as it was over 50 years ago.

Tennessee Williams's overheated tale of familial strife in the Deep South comes alive in this atmospheric dramatisation - it's all steamy, fly-blown and shutters slammin'.

Although the scope is small and the personas largely disagreeable, the performances are outstanding.

Superbly acted, and following the Kazan-inspired happy ending third act written as a rather reluctant postscript, rather than the original original, it is a photographed stage play and we remain outside, in the audience.

July 20, 2018

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