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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

(1958)

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| Film | USA | Colour | Drama | 1h 48min |
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| Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives | Director: Richard Brooks

A rich plantation owner, dying of cancer, finds his two sons unsatisfactory: one is a conniver, the other a neurotic who refuses to sleep with his wife

Cast

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British actress, Elizabeth Taylor
Maggie Pollitt
Paul Newman
Brick Pollitt
Burl Ives
Big Daddy Pollitt
Jack Carson
Gooper Pollitt
Judith Anderson
Ida ‘Big Mama’ Pollitt
Madeleine Sherwood
Mae Pollitt
Larry Gates
Dr Baugh
Vaughn Taylor
Deacon Davis
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Reviews

(1)

Slightly bowdlerised version of Tennessee Williams’s most straightforward melodrama, watchable for the acting but still basically a theatrical experience. (Halliwell’s)

Pictures

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Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (16). Directed by Richard Brooks
Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (15). Produced by Lawrence Weingarten
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Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (11). Based on the play ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ by Tennessee Williams
Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (10). Screenplay by Richard Brooks and James Poe
Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (9). With Madeleine Sherwood, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor
Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (8). Judith Anderson
Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (7). Co-starring Jack Carson
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Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (5). Burl Ives
Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (4). Paul Newman
Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (3). Starring Elizabeth Taylor
Main title from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (2). Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents an Avon Production
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Production

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Richard Brooks
Director / Writer (screenplay)
Lawrence Weingarten
Producer
James Poe
Writer
Tennessee Williams
Writer (play)

Companies

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) opening credits (2)
Avon Productions (II)
Production company
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) opening credits (2)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Distribution company