Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
01/10/1958 (GB)
Drama
1h 48m
- 76% (802 votes)
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Just one pillow on her bed... and just one desire in her heart.
Overview
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
- Richard BrooksDirector, Screenplay
- Tennessee WilliamsWriter
- James PoeScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$3,000,000
Revenue
$17,570,324
Keywords
- dying and death
- depression
- individual
- suicide
- jealousy
- husband wife relationship
- southern usa
- mississippi river
- plantation
- patriarch
- based on play or musical
- inheritance
- sibling rivalry
- brother against brother
- cynical
- alcoholic
- dying father
- family conflict
- angry
- father son conflict
- southern gothic
- anxious
- daughter–in–law father–in–law relationship
- star athlete
- cotton plantation
- mississippi
- authoritarian
- condescending
Top Billed Cast
Paul Newman
Brick
Elizabeth Taylor
Maggie
Burl Ives
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Judith Anderson
Big Momma
Jack Carson
Gooper
Madeleine Sherwood
Mae
Vaughn Taylor
Deacon Davis
Larry Gates
Dr. Baugh
Brian Corcoran
Boy
Zelda Cleaver
Servant
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