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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof [1958]
from Warner Home Video
starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson
directed by Richard Brooks

Features:

• Anamorphic
• Dubbed
• Full Screen
• PAL

Editorial Review:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof offers a smouldering, angry Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie, the feline in question. Paul Newman is her ex-athlete husband, Brick Pollitt, an alcoholic who frustrates and disappoints his wife and his overbearing father, Burl Ives, the vulgar patriarch of this positively Gothic Southern family whose children return to the nest like vultures when they learn he is dying of cancer. Infidelities, addictions, latent homosexuality, depression, unrequited love and mendacity are woven into this powerful adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Though it was somewhat whitewashed by Hollywood, the sentiment remains powerful due to the provocative performances. The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor and Actress for Newman and Taylor. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Outstanding version
  Seeing this film again recently reminded me just what a great film it is. It's a very powerful story and the film keeps closely to the original play. The acting couldn't be better. All of the actors are excellent. Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman are superb: he in the way he depicts his feelings of hopelessness and radiates such antipathy and tension; and she, in subtle glances and body language, her enduring love for him and disappointment that their marriage is childless and failing.
  I don't think a... more info

• No - watch the film first!
  Great play and acting, but I disagree with the correspondent who indicated it's better to read the play first. The play is the real thing, hence I'd say it rises above the film, which as is well-documented has been censored. A pity.
  

• Tenessee William's Broadway production brought to big screen
  Paul Newman is great here and together with Elizabeth Taylor he has some great scenes. Burt Ives as Big Daddy has a nice performance as well and Madeleine Sherwood does a very good job by creating one of the most annoying characters I have seen in the movies. Her whining Mae is hated by everyone and we totally understand why. With a movie where there is this much talking and the story line is mostly talking about things rather than experience them the actors are very important and do a very good job.

• 5 star shining for maggie but the rest disappoints
  Elizabeth Taylor sizzles as Maggie, stunning as the positively itching 'cat on the hot tin roof' of the title. She is passionate and forthright and dominates all of her scenes, even with such a powerful cast; she burns with unfulfilled sexual desire yet her committment to the screwed-up and impotent Brick is moving.
  Decent acting, including one of the most annoying families of all time battling for Big Daddy's affection against his favoured Brick and Maggie; but the whole thing gets over-wraught,... more info

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