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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 .
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.
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 ...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman star in theclassic screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winningplay Cat on a Hot...
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.
Film Details. New York opening: 18 Sep 1958. Based on the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, as presented on the stage by the Playwrights Catinroof Company (New York, 24 Mar 1955).
The original production starred Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara. The play was adapted as a film of the same name in 1958, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as Maggie and Brick, with Burl Ives and Madeleine Sherwood recreating their stage roles.
