CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF ... 1958
Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Burl Ives
SYNOPSIS:
The fifth Tennessee Williams play to reach the screen, wealthy Mississippi plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt, unaware that he's dying of cancer and disturbed by the strained and childless marriage of his favoured alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose wife is about to bring forth another in the endless line of little "no-neck monsters," celebrates his sixty-fifth birthday with his family. Brick's wife, Maggie, beautiful and desirable, tries unsuccessfully to coax her husband away from the bottle, while alternately enticing him and taunting him about his obsession with his deceased best friend and the guilt about their relationship. The seamy tensions reach a climax when the truth of Big Daddy's health is revealed, and he and Brick manage to resolve their differences
TAGLINES
Just one pillow on her bed ... and just one desire in her heart!
This is Maggie the Cat...
Every sultry moment of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize Play is now on the screen!
All the sultry drama of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning Play is now on the screen!
RELEASE DATES
USA 18 September 1958 (New York City, New York)
USA 20 September 1958
TECHNICAL SPECS
Runtime: 108 min
Sound Mix:Mono (Perspecta Sound) (Westrex Recording System)
Colour: Colour (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1Academy Awards, USA 1959
Nominated
Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role - Paul Newman
Best Actress in a Leading Role - Elizabeth Taylor
Best Cinematography, Colour - William H. Daniels
Best Director - Richard Brooks
Best Picture - Lawrence Weingarten
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium - Richard Brooks, James Poe
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