Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)
 Director
Richard Brooks also wrote the screenplay for this film version of
Tennessee Williams' powerful play about a patriarchal Southern
family.
The film is somewhat stage-bound, but is entertaining on many
levels and Elizabeth Taylor is excellent as Maggie the Cat - the
wife of a frustrated young man called Brick (Paul Newman) who is
under the control of his dying money-loving father.
Burl Ives is convincing as "Big Daddy, " the
overwhelming plantation owner, and the rest of the cast turns in
credible performances.
The movie loses some of the play's impact by minimising Brick's
latent homosexuality.
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