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- Commentary by Biographer Donald Spoto
- Featurette Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Playing Cat and Mouse
- Theatrical Trailer
- Subtitles in English, French & Spanish
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 2, 2006
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman & Burl Ives | |
Performer: | Madeleine Sherwood, Vaughn Taylor, Larry Gates, Jack Carson & Judith Anderson | |
Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
Edited by | Ferris Webster | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Brooks & James Poe | |
Original story by | Tennessee Williams | |
Produced by | Lawrence Weingarten | |
Director of Photography: | William H. Daniels |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Classics-loving teens will appreciate family melodrama.
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Common Sense Media
A formaldehyded tabby that sits static while layer after layer of its skin is peeled off, life after life of its nine lives unsentimentally destroyed.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 2/4 --
...like watching a melodrama in a sauna. It's just too much.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 4/5 --
It is a fine piece of acting by Paul Newman, the Southern gentlemen portraying his fragile and haunted character with an unparalleled amount of soul, which he had imbedded in many of his characters.
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Matt's Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/4 --
The performances are the thing in this film version of the Tennessee Williams stage triumph, led by Ives, repeating his stage role like a force of nature.
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TV Guide
Director Brooks skilfully elicits the best from his performers and script with the result that there were Oscars nominations for all concerned.
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Film4
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, both gorgeous beyond measure, strike sparks as the sexually unfulfilled Maggie and her tortured husband Brick, while Burl Ives is sensational as the family patriarch Big Daddy.
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Creative Loafing
Description by OLDIES.com:
The raw emotions and crackling dialogue of Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize play rumble like a thunderstorm in this film version, whose fiery performances and grown-up themes made it one of 1958's top box-office hits. Paul Newman earned his first Oscar nomination as troubled ex-sports hero Brick. In a performance that marked a transition to richer adult roles, Elizabeth Taylor snagged her second. Her Maggie the Cat is a vivid portrait of passionate loyalty. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture and also starring Burl Ives (repeating his Broadway triumph as mendacity-loathing Big Daddy), Judith Anderson and Jack Carson, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof sizzles.
Product Description:
This is the classic cinematic version of Tennessee Williams's breathtaking play about a crazed southern family torn apart by greed. Larger-than-life patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives) lays dying, and the members of his brood clamor for the inheritance. Paul Newman is Brick, the alcoholic son struggling in the shadow of his powerful father, and Elizabeth Taylor is Maggie, Brick's lingerie-clad temptress of a wife who will do anything for the love of her cold husband. Brick's younger brother, Gooper (Jack Carson), and his wife, Mae (Madeleine Sherwood), strive for Big Daddy's approval, but even though they have children and a successful marriage, Big Daddy is dedicated to Brick, a former football star with his own personal demons. Tensions mount as the family is forced together under one roof, where secrets are revealed and relationships are lost and found. Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman's performances serve as cinematic icons; the heat and hatred between them ignites the screen, fueled by Tennessee Williams's insightful and brilliant dialogue.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Deluxe Edition
"I'm not living with you," Maggie snaps at Brick. "We occupy the same cage, that's all." The raw emotions and crackling dialogue of Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize play rumble like a thunderstorm in this film version whose fiery performances and grown-up themes made it one of 1958's top box-office hits.
Paul Newman earned his first OscarO nomination* as troubled ex-sports hero Brick. In a performance that marked a transition to richer adult roles, Elizabeth Taylor snagged her second. Her Maggie the Cat is a vivid portrait of passionate loyalty. Nominated for six Academy AwardsO including Best Picture* and also starring Burl Ives (repeating his Broadway triumph as mendacity-loathing Big Daddy), Judith Anderson and Jack Carson, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof sizzles.
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