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Name: The Night of the Iguana
Released: 1964-7-1
Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, Skip Ward

The Night of the Iguana

PG
2h 5m
1964

75%

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Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr star in Academy Award-winning director John Huston's adaptation of playwright Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana. Defrocked, alcoholic former priest T. Lawrence Shannon (Burton) has fallen far in his quest to sate his base, libidinous urges. Now working as a tour guide in Mexico for a group of female American schoolteachers, Shannon is caught with one of the women at the start of a night of alcohol and tropical heat that rips away the façades of repression that cover the perversions and personal demons of all members of the tour group.

Director:

John Huston

Producer:

Ray Stark, John Huston

Writer:

Anthony Veiller, John Huston

Cast:

Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, Skip Ward, Grayson Hall, Cyril Delevanti, Mary Boylan

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

75%

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

Although it's often ignored or outright forgotten, The Night of the Iguana is actually one of the better screen adaptations of a Tennessee Williams work.

December 12, 2022

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Joe Riddle

The three main female leads (Gardner, Kerr and Hall) help make this the classic it has become. Burton is also terrific as a man who is about "to take the long swim to China."

Though uneven and not as powerful as other Williams-based films, Huston's version benefits from a high-profile cast, headed by Burton, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon and best of all Ava Gardner as the lusty hotel owner and Grayson Hall as the repressed lesbian

Direction by John Huston is resourceful and dynamic as he sympathetically weaves together the often-vague and philosophical threads that mark Tennessee Williams' writing.

June 21, 2017

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TV Guide