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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Country: USA, Language: English, 108 mins

  • Director: Richard Brooks
  • Writer: Tennessee Williams; Richard Brooks
  • Producer: Lawrence Weingarten

CGiii Comment

Possibly...no, correction: the most annoying film ever made with the most annoying actress - the screeching Taylor.

The script is a nonsense - mystifying as to why Williams was ever considered to be a great writer.

Utter bollocks...now, that's good writing.


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The(ir) Blurb...

The family of who is "affectionately" known as "Big Daddy" Pollitt convenes at his and Big Momma's vast 28,000 acre East Mississippi plantation for his sixty-fifth birthday, although it may as well be for his funeral on the belief that he is dying. Despite his latest medical report being clean, in reality he truly does have terminal colon cancer, something the doctor only tells Big Daddy's two sons, Gooper Pollitt, a lawyer, and Brick Pollitt, who recently left his job as a sportscaster. Brooding Brick and his wife Maggie Pollitt, who have driven up from New Orleans for the occasion, are going through a long rough patch in their marriage. Brick wanted to split, but Maggie convinced him to stay married on the condition that she not pressure him for sex. In their troubles, Brick has turned to the bottle, a drunken incident which has left Brick currently on crutches. Maggie believes Gooper and his wife Mae Pollitt are trying to orchestrate Brick out of Big Daddy's will.

Cast & Characters

Elizabeth Taylor as Margaret 'Maggie the Cat' Pollitt;
Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt;
Burl Ives as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt;
Jack Carson as Cooper 'Gooper' Pollitt;
Judith Anderson as Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt;
Madeleine Sherwood as Mae Flynn Pollitt;
Larry Gates as Dr. Baugh;
Vaughn Taylor as Deacon Davis;
Zelda Cleaver as Sookey - Servant;
Brian Corcoran as 'Boy' Pollitt;
Hugh Corcoran as Buster Pollitt;
Patty Ann Gerrity as Dixie Pollitt;
Bobby Johnson as Pollitt Groom;
Walter Merrill as Party Guest;
Deborah Miller as Trixie Pollitt