Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Richard Brooks Digital Life VHS

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson
directed by: Richard Brooks

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304508336
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6304508336
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: August 12, 1997
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 26501
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: September 20, 1958

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Maggie is the feline in question, as portrayed by a smoldering, angry Elizabeth Taylor. Paul Newman is her ex-athlete husband, Brick Pollitt, an alcoholic who frustrates and disappoints his wife and his overbearing father. Burl Ives is Big Daddy, the vulgar patriarch of this positively gothic Southern family whose children return to the nest like vultures when they learn he is dying of cancer. Infidelities, addictions, latent homosexuality, depression, unrequited love, and mendacity are woven into this still-powerful adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Though it was somewhat whitewashed by Hollywood, the sentiment remains powerful because of the provocative performances. It was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Actress for Newman and Taylor. --Rochelle O'Gorman

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Makes you sizzle!
The sexual frustration undertones in this movie will keep you riveted!
The chemistry between Taylor and Newman are amazing.
Set in a time in the south where everything was big.
I reccomend this film to anyone who loves going back in time
when movies had grit and a bite to them!

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- Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Paul and Elizabeth at their best, Burl Ives too. The winey sister-in-law needs to be taken out and shot! Excellent movie, I've watched it, this copy and others at least a dozen times. They don't make movies like this any more. Thank God, "they" did when they made this and others of this type. Now if I could remember the movie with Paul and Geraldine Page of similar vintage, I'd buy it too. She is a fading movie star; Paul is her "love toy".

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- Great googly moogly
Movies used to relay on scripts and acting and production rather than computer simulations to be good. This is just such a movie. It takes one back to a time when the players were the stars. And besides that...it's worth the price just to see Liz change her stockings. That's where the "great googly moogly" title comes from (<;

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- Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
This is a classic, worth keeping and watching again and again. I saw it first as a college student in the 1960s. In those days I was impressed by Liz Taylor, the cat, beautiful, and vicious. She made the college boys tremble with an awesome respect.
Nevertheless, it was Paul Newman's performance that stuck with me over the years, the mushy clay that became a brick. The openning scene in which the nostalgic fool broke his leg on the high hurdles made a lasting impression. Somehow, that was me. The fast talk and the angry, penetrating looks projected the image I wanted to imitate but never could. The hansome cripple, without a shirt, swinging on the bannisters, while shouting the blistering truth to the dumb founded family below, isn't that way we would all like to think of ourselves? Then, descending to the basement with his father, he becomes the true son. He loves the old man, while brushing aside ... Read More

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