Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [Blu-ray]

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [Blu-ray]

 Cast: Paul Newman
Paul Newman
, Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
, Burl Ives
Burl Ives
, Jack Carson
Jack Carson
, Judith Anderson
Judith Anderson
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [Blu-ray]

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [Blu-ray]

 Cast: Paul Newman
Paul Newman
, Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
, Burl Ives
Burl Ives
, Jack Carson
Jack Carson
, Judith Anderson
Judith Anderson

Blu-ray (Wide Screen)

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Overview

The dynamic and commanding adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over their dying father's millions. Wealthy plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), celebrating his 65th birthday, is visited by his sons, Brick (Paul Newman) and Gooper (Jack Carson). He has cancer, but a doctor has deliberately and falsely declared it in remission. Seemingly perfect son Gooper and his wife Mae (Madeleine Sherwood) have several children and are anxiously expecting to inherit Daddy's millions. By contrast, Big Daddy's "favorite," Brick, is a has-been football star who's taken to drinking his days away since the suicide of his "best friend" a year earlier. He resents his wife, Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor), because he believes that she had an affair with his deceased friend. As a result, he refuses to sleep with her although she remains devoted to him. Since Brick and Maggie have failed to produce any grandchildren, Big Daddy is inclined to leave his estate to Gooper, but Maggie attempts to prevent that by telling him that she is pregnant. Big Daddy knows better, yet he recognizes that Maggie loves Brick so much that she would be willing to do anything for him. Although Brick is self-destructive and resentful, unable to come to terms with his losses, it takes Big Daddy's recognition of his own mortality to make Brick change his perspective. Brick's struggle with his sexual identity, and the nature of his relationship with his "friend," had to be toned down for mass consumption, although this intelligently written and acted film covers such topics as infertility, adultery, and alcoholism that were still considered taboo in the 1950's. Newman brings depth and feeling to the role as Brick, while Taylor succeeds brilliantly in portraying Maggie as a passionate and understanding woman despite her own real-life emotional turmoil over the death of her husband at the time, producer Mike Todd.

Product Details

Release Date: 08/09/2016
UPC: 0888574379438
Original Release: 1958
Rating: NR
Source: Warner Archives
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Language: English
Time: 1:48:00
Sales rank: 1,048

Special Features

Commentary by Biographer Donald Spoto, Author of The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Playing Cat and Mouse Featurette; Theatrical Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Paul Newman Brick
Elizabeth Taylor Maggie,Deacon Davis
Burl Ives Big Daddy
Jack Carson Cooper
Judith Anderson Big Mama
Madeleine Sherwood Mae
Larry Gates Dr. Baugh
Patty Ann Gerrity Dixie Pollitt
Rusty Stevens Sonny Pollitt,Sonny Pollitt
Hugh Corcoran Buster Pollitt,Boy Pollitt
Deborah Miller Trixie Pollitt
Vince Townsend Jr. Lacey
Zelda Cleaver Sookey
Tony Merrill Party Guest,Party Guest
Jeane Wood Party Guest
Bobby Johnson Groom
Mildred Dunnock Bit Part
Vince Townsend Lacey - Servant
Al Pacino Actor
Annette Bening Actor
Jennifer Garner Actor
Bobby Cannavale Actor
Christopher Plummer Actor
Katarina Cas Actor
Giselle Eisenberg Actor
Melissa Benoist Actor
Josh Peck Actor
Brian Thomas Smith Actor
Scott Lawrence Actor
Michael Patrick McGill Actor
Kiff VandenHeuvel Actor
Nick Offerman Actor
Eric Schneider Actor
Deacon Davis Actor
André Previn Composer
Charles Wolcott Composer

Technical Credits
Richard Brooks Director,Screenwriter,Screenwriter
James Poe Screenwriter
Lawrence Weingarten Producer
Lee LeBlanc Special Effects
Tennessee Williams Screenwriter
Wesley C. Miller Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Norwood A. Fenton Sound Effects
Van Allen James Sound Effects
Dean Smith Stunts
Dan Fogelman Director
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