Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Blu-ray)
A dying southern patriarch surveys the prospects for his legacy in the hands of his sons, one a neurotic weakling and the other an alcoholic conniver, and finds them sorely lacking.
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 9, 2016
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
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:
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
An intense, important motion picture.
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Variety
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: 4/5 --
What a pack of trashy people these accomplished actors perform!
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New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Classics-loving teens will appreciate family melodrama.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 2/4 --
...like watching a melodrama in a sauna. It's just too much.
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LarsenOnFilm
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:
Brick (Paul Newman), an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor). His reunion with his father, Big Daddy (Burl Ives), who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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- Sales Rank: 34,206
- UPC: 888574379438
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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