Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• 1958
• US
• 1h 48min
• PG

• Directed by: Richard Brooks
• Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives

Inevitably bowdlerised but suitably sweaty version of Tennessee Williams' loquacious play. A deceived and cancer-ridden Southern patriarch (Ives) gathers his greedy, in-fighting family for a birthday celebration, and is met by general sycophancy from all except his strangely distant son. Even in diluted form this still packs a punch and the Taylor-Newman teaming is irresistible.

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