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Bookmark this pageCat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Director: Richard Brooks
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From Time Out Film Guide
Overheated melodrama, based on Tennessee Williams' play about frustration, greed, lust and impotence wreaking havoc among a wealthy Southern family. Taylor overdoes it as the nagging wife of neurotic Newman, uncertain about his sexuality; Carson connives for the favours of his dying father, hoping to inherit; and Ives is magnificently patriarchal as Big Daddy, ruling the roost with an ego the size of his stomach. As so often with adaptations of Williams, it frequently errs on the side of overstatement and pretension, but still remains immensely enjoyable as a piece of cod-Freudian codswallop.Author: GA
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- Posted on Aug 22 2011 13:58 Surpbely illuminating data here, thanks!
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- Don said...
- Posted on Dec 26 2010 08:38 Williams was fond of overstatement, period, in my opinion, and thank God for it. There is no other voice quite like him in 20th century theatre.
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Cast & crew
Director: Richard Brooks
Producer: Lawrence Weingarten
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson, Madeleine Sherwood full cast
Duration: 108 mins
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