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Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson Director: Richard Brooks Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 108 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Release Date: May 2, 2006 Theatrical Release Date: September 20, 1958 Studio: Warner Home Video
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"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.Running Time: 108 min.System Requirements:Running Time 108 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 012569698529 Manufacturer No: 66985
Elizabeth Taylor has never been sexier than as Tennessee Williams's hot-blooded Maggie "The Cat" Pollitt, prowling around her boudoir in a slinky white slip. That's how you know her alcoholic, ex-football-player husband, Brick Paul Newman, must have more than just his leg in a cast. It's the 65th birthday of wealthy but dying southern patriarch Big Daddy Burl Ives, and his sons Gooper Jack Carter and Brick have come to suck up to him for $10 million in inheritance money. Gooper is a family man and father to a brood of "no-neck monsters"; youngest boy Brick is papa's favorite as if you couldn't tell from the fellow's names, but hasn't sired progeny. Maggie is definitely in heat, but Brick refuses to sleep with her because he suspects her her of being unfaithful with his best friend, who recent committed suicide. Although toned down for the movies, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is vintage Tennessee Williams. The film was directed by Richard Brooks In Cold Blood, Blackboard Jungle, Elmer Gantry. --Jim Emerson
