Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0012569507531
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2000-09-19
Running Time: 108
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1958-09-20

Elizabeth Taylor has never been sexier than as Tennessee Williams's hot-blooded Maggie "The Cat" Pollitt, prowling around her boudoir in a slinky white slip. That's how you know her alcoholic, ex-football-player husband, Brick (Paul Newman), must have more than just his leg in a cast. It's the 65th birthday of wealthy (but dying) southern patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives), and his sons Gooper (Jack Carter) and Brick have come to suck up to him for $10 million in inheritance money. Gooper is a family man and father to a brood of "no-neck monsters"; youngest boy Brick is papa's favorite (as if you couldn't tell from the fellow's names), but hasn't sired progeny. Maggie is definitely in heat, but Brick refuses to sleep with her because he suspects her her of being unfaithful with his best friend, who recent committed suicide. Although toned down for the movies, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is vintage Tennessee Williams. The film was directed by Richard Brooks (In Cold Blood, Blackboard Jungle, Elmer Gantry). --Jim Emerson

Customer Rating:
Summary: Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
Comment: 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 the junk, collected over a life time.
At my present age I can finally admire the Oscar winning performance of Burl Ives. The rich old man had more heart than anyone recognized.
I guess I'll probably watch this movies another handfull of times before I die. It's a good movie when each time you watch it you see something new.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: cat on a hot tin roof
Comment: Great performances by ET & PM. Hollywood cannot redo this movie because there are no current actors that can touch the performance given by this cast. Great movie!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Cat On A Hot Tim Roof
Comment: This is a total movie classic starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor. Everyone MUST see this movie. It's iconic in the move genre. A Must MUST MUST see.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Comment: One of the best movies ever. I could watch this one over and over.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Couple Movie
Comment: This movie is a classic. Great cast and the story line goes very fast. Mind you , the story is all in one day.

You'll love the bedroom converstations between Breck and Maggie. Your husband might enjoy this movie with you. Great date movie.

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