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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [Blu-ray]
by 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),
Richard Brooks (Director,Screenwriter,Screenwriter),
Richard Brooks (Director,Screenwriter,Screenwriter),
James Poe (Screenwriter),
James Poe (Screenwriter),
Tennessee Williams (Author,Screenwriter),
Lawrence Weingarten (Producer),
Ferris Webster (Editor),
William A. Horning (Art Director,Art Director,Production Designer),
Urie McCleary (Art Director,Production Designer),
Lee LeBlanc (Special Effects),
Tennessee Williams (Screenwriter),
William H. Daniels (Cinematographer),
André Previn (Composer),
André Previn (Composer),
Charles Wolcott (Composer),
Charles Wolcott (Composer),
Wesley C. Miller (Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer),
Norwood A. Fenton (Sound Effects),
Van Allen James (Sound Effects),
Dean Smith (Stunts),
Dan Fogelman (Director),
Dan Fogelman (Director),
Robert Priestley (Set Design),
Henry Grace (Set Design)
Format: Blu-ray
ISBN: 888574379438
Publication Date: 08/09/2016
Edition Description: Wide Screen
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.
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