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Box office. $17.6 million [2] 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 .
A film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a dysfunctional southern family and their secrets. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives and Judith Anderson, directed by Richard Brooks.
- (54K)
- Drama
- Richard Brooks
- 1958-08-29
The list of extras is short but strong. A new featurette, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Playing Cat and Mouse spends most of its time with star talk on the set -- we get the full rundown on Ms. Taylor's mid-shooting tragedy when her husband Mike Todd was killed in an airplane crash. We hear a lot about how this picture was a big boost for Taylor and ...
- Richard Brooks, William Shanks
- Elizabeth Taylor
A film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor as a married couple visiting their dying father. The film explores themes of sexual repression, family conflict and legacy in the American South.
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- Elizabeth Taylor
- Richard Brooks
- Drama
Brick and Margaret's room on the Pollitt plantation in Mississippi. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1955 American three-act play written by Tennessee Williams. The play, an adaptation of his 1952 short story "Three Players of a Summer Game", was written between 1953 and 1955. [ 1] One of Williams's more famous works and his personal favorite, [ 2 ...
- Tennessee Williams
- 1955
Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman star in theclassic screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winningplay Cat on a Hot Ti...
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A movie adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a dysfunctional family reunion and a dying patriarch. Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, struggles with his past, his wife Maggie, and his brother Gooper, who wants his father's inheritance.
