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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof [1958]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 7321900566179
Label : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Release date : 2006-06-01
Title : Cat On A Hot Tin Roof [1958]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1958-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 108
Studio : Warner Home Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1958-09-20
Number of discs : 1

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof offers a smouldering, angry Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie, the feline in question. Paul Newman is her ex-athlete husband, Brick Pollitt, an alcoholic who frustrates and disappoints his wife and his overbearing father, Burl Ives, 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 powerful adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Though it was somewhat whitewashed by Hollywood, the sentiment remains powerful due to the provocative performances. The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor and Actress for Newman and Taylor. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-05-25 rating:

Outstanding version
Seeing this film again recently reminded me just what a great film it is. It's a very powerful story and the film keeps closely to the original play. The acting couldn't be better. All of the actors are excellent. Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman are superb: he in the way he depicts his feelings of hopelessness and radiates such antipathy and tension; and she, in subtle glances and body language, her enduring love for him and disappointment that their marriage is childless and failing.

I don't think a better film version of the play could be made than this one.

review by: anglo-frenchie date: 2008-02-29 rating:

No - watch the film first!
Great play and acting, but I disagree with the correspondent who indicated it's better to read the play first. The play is the real thing, hence I'd say it rises above the film, which as is well-documented has been censored. A pity.

review by: The Amazon Reviewer date: 2007-12-18 rating:

Tenessee William's Broadway production brought to big screen
Paul Newman is great here and together with Elizabeth Taylor he has some great scenes. Burt Ives as Big Daddy has a nice performance as well and Madeleine Sherwood does a very good job by creating one of the most annoying characters I have seen in the movies. Her whining Mae is hated by everyone and we totally understand why. With a movie where there is this much talking and the story line is mostly talking about things rather than experience them the actors are very important and do a very good job.

review by: D Hughes Lanarkshire date: 2007-09-23 rating:

5 star shining for maggie but the rest disappoints
Elizabeth Taylor sizzles as Maggie, stunning as the positively itching 'cat on the hot tin roof' of the title. She is passionate and forthright and dominates all of her scenes, even with such a powerful cast; she burns with unfulfilled sexual desire yet her committment to the screwed-up and impotent Brick is moving.

Decent acting, including one of the most annoying families of all time battling for Big Daddy's affection against his favoured Brick and Maggie; but the whole thing gets over-wraught, over-heated, stagey, stilted and lacking in variation, anticipating nothing so much as episodes of TVs Dallas. 'Just stop all shouting at each other' you feel like moaning.

But Taylor, particularly in the first 30 minutes--has anyone ever worn a belt, a blouse or a slip so fantastically? That's where the stars come from.

review by: date: 2004-09-09 rating:

Average film dealing with a tough subject
The film in itself is not particularly bad, afterall it has got Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in her prime. The problem is, if you've read the play first, this film can't help to be disappointing.

Due to Hollywood constrictions, the most intriguing parts of the play - Brick's homosexuality- is completely cut. There might be fleeting references to it but not in the detail thats obvious in the play.

The best thing to do is probably read the play first then see the film.

Newman's restricted performance is brilliant and Elizabeth Taylor shines as Maggie.

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