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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks, [3] [4] who co-wrote the screenplay with James Poe, based on the 1955 Pulitzer Prize -winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, and Judith Anderson .
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson. Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife.
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- Drama
- Richard Brooks
- 1958-08-29
Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is his second Pulitzer Prize winner and his second Hollywood blockbuster. This time around, Richard Brooks does the adaptation and directing honors, enlarging the confined drama to fill Big Daddy Pollitt's Alabama mansion and inventing new scenes as needed.
- Richard Brooks, William Shanks
- Elizabeth Taylor
After Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), visit his family's ...
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- Elizabeth Taylor
- Richard Brooks
- Drama
Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman star in theclassic screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winningplay Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.As the family of a wealthy...
Synopsis. In the opening scene, Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman), a former high school football star, spends a drunken night jumping hurdles on a school athletic field at Eastern Mississippi High School in a tragic attempt to recapture his glory days. He falls and breaks his right ankle.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
