The Movie - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

We've seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof movie (Die Katze auf dem hei?en Blechdach).

Movie Issued - in 1958.

CONT: In the highest basic scene of the trade of art, when Brick be arrange the obstacle, his gloom is projected to the authorization line-up of the peak. After he approach the sports car and drinks from the vessel, his shadow is projected to the departed side., FACT: When Doc Baugh comes upstairs to tell Brick about Big Daddy's real condition, he examines Brick's leg and discusses football with him. In the course of that conversation, Brick alludes to a game played against "Bama State", meaning Alabama State. Bama State (Alabama State) is a historically black university in Montgomery. During the 1950s, Brick's college (presumably Ole Miss) would not have been allowed to play a historically black college. The choice of "Bama State" by the writers was a factual mistake, in that such a game could not have occurred under any circumstances in that era., CONT: After Brick tries to drive away and gets stuck, Maggie goes out to him and helps him into the house through the pouring rain. Her hair is soaking wet, but the next time we see her, it's perfectly dry and styled., CREW: After Doctor Baugh tells Brick the truth about Big Daddy, he leaves the scene from the balcony. However, near the last shot of the scene, you can see a shadow of a person walking behind on the balcony long after Doctor Baugh left the scene., CONT: After Brick and Big Daddy come up from the cellar, Big Mamma says to Gooper "Take these papers away before I tear them up. I don't know what's in them; I don't want to know what's in them." Big Daddy goes outside and talks to the folks fixing the light. As he approaches the door to come into the room where Gooper and Big Mamma are arguing, you can hear her say the line "Take these papers away before I tear them up. I don't know what's in them; I don't want to know what's in them." again., FACT: Although it is filled once in the afternoon, the ice bucket in Brick's bedroom stays full well into the evening even though it's never replenished., CONT: The way Brick holds his glass changes, while Maggie talks with him about Gooper's plan to grab the estate., CONT: When Brick lies on the couch and Maggie is at the mirror, he takes a drink and says that he is not conscious of looking at Maggie. She turns round and his drink is gone., CONT: When at the record player, Brick is looking up, but in next cut is looking down., CONT: When Brick asks Maggie is she would live alone, he is at the bar putting ice in his glass, which disappears and reappears several times., CONT: The way Brick holds the glass changes while Maggie talks about Big Daddy's arrival., CONT: Maggie removes the gift card from the envelope twice., CONT: The way Maggie holds on to Brick changes three times when Maggie has locked the door to give them privacy., CONT: When Big Momma questions Maggie regarding Brick's drinking, the way the glass is held and the amount in it change position., CONT: The way Big Daddy holds his cigar changes when he asks Ida to walk with him., CONT: The "Southern accents" by almost every character are wildly inconsistent from scene to scene and from each other.
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?, Brick Pollitt: [Offering Big Daddy morphine] It'll kill the pain, that's all.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: [Wincing with pain] It'll kill the senses too! You... you got pain - at least you know you're alive. [groans] - It's easin' somewhat now. When you got pain, it's better to judge yourself of a lot of things. I'm not gonna stupify myself with that stuff. I wanna think clear. I want to see everything, and I want to feel everything. Then I won't mind goin'. I've got the guts to die. What I want to know - do you have the guts to live?::Brick Pollitt: I don't know.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: We can start by helping each other up this stairs., Mae Pollitt: [to Big Mama] Gooper is your first born. Why he always had to carry a bigger load of the resposibilities than Brick? Brick never carried a thing in his life but a football or a high ball., Gooper Pollitt: [to Maggie] Why don't you go up there and drink with Brick if the conquerin' hero hasn't passed out already? He may have to pass up the Sugar Bowl this year or was it the Rose Bowl he made his famous run in?::Mae Pollitt: It was the punch bowl, Honey, the cut-glass punch bowl., Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: There ain't nuthin' more powerful than the smell of mendacity!, Brick Pollitt: What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Just staying on it I guess, long as she can., Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive., Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: You know what I feel like? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.::Brick Pollitt: Then jump off the roof, Maggie. Jump off it. Cats jump off roofs and land uninjured. Do it. Jump.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Jump where? Into what?, Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: You've got to.::Brick Pollitt: I don't have to do anything I don't want to! Now, you keep forgetting the conditions on which I agreed to stay on living with you.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: I'm not living with you! We occupy the same cage, that's all., Brick Pollitt: Don't make a fool of yourself, Maggie.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: I don't mind making a fool of myself over you.::Brick Pollitt: Well, I mind. I feel embarrassed for you.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Feel embarrassed? Well, I can't live on this way.::Brick Pollitt: You agreed to accept that condition.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: I know I did. But I can't! I can't!, Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: When marriage goes on the rocks, the rocks are there. Right there!, Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Where did I fail you? Where did I make my mistake?, Brick Pollitt: But, how in hell on earth can you imagine you're gonna have a child with a man who cannot stand you., Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: I'm gonna pick me a choice woman and I'm gonna smother her in minks and choke her with diamonds. Boy, I'm gonna be happy., Brick Pollitt: I'm ashamed, Big Daddy. That's why I'm a drunk. When I'm drunk, I can stand myself.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: But it's always there in the mornin', ain't it? The truth and it's here right now! [They run outside into the rain] You're just feeling sorry for yourself; that's all it is! Self-pity! [Inside the carport] You didn't kill Skipper. He killed himself. You and Skipper and millions like you are living in a kids' world. Playing games, touchdowns, no worries, no responsibilities. Life ain't no damn football game. Life ain't just a buncha high spots. [He grabs Brick] You're a thirty-year-old kid. Soon you'll be a fifty-year-old kid. Pretendin' you're hearin' cheers when there ain't any. Dreamin' and drinkin' your life away. Heroes in the real world live twenty-four hours a day, not just two hours in a game. Mendacity! You won't... [winces in obvious pain] You won't live with mendacity? Well, you're an expert at it! The truth is pain and sweat and payin' bills and makin' love to a woman that you don't love any more. Truth is dreams that don't come true, and nobody prints your name in the paper 'til you die., Brick Pollitt: Careful Maggie, your claws are showing., Gooper Pollitt: The point is I won't see this place run into the ground by a drunken ex-football hero.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: You shut up about my husband!::Mae Pollitt: You shut up!, Gooper Pollitt: I don't give a damn whether Big Daddy likes me, or don't likes me. Or did or never did. Or will or will never., Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Wouldja look at all this stuff? Bought most of it when I took your mother to Europe on that Cook's Tour. Never had such a lousy time in my life. I tell you that Europe ain't nothin' but a wore-out auction, just a great big fire sale, the whole rotten thing. Boy, Big Mama just wild in it, and she just bought and bought and bought. Sure is lucky I'm a rich man, yes, sirree, sure is lucky. Got any idea how much I'm worth, son? Ask Gooper. He knows. He knows to the penny 'less I missed my guess. Close on ten million dollars in cash and blue chip stocks besides twenty-eight thousand of the richest acres this side of the Valley Nile.::Brick: Well, that is pretty rich to be.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: But, there's one thing you can't buy at any European fire sale, [clears cobwebs from broken clock] or any other market on Earth. That's your life. You can't buy back your life when it's finished.::Brick: No, sir, no-one can.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Feelin' sorry for me, or for you?::Brick: For you, Papa.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: That's good, 'cause you're gonna miss me, boy., Dixie Pollitt: Why is Uncle Brick on the floor?::Brick Pollitt: Because I tried to kill your Aunt Maggie. But I failed. And I fell., Dr. Baugh: Sometimes I wish I had a pill to make people disappear., Brick Pollitt: People like doing what they used to do, after they've stopped being able to do it., Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: We've still got one thing on our side. No, two things. Are my seams straight? Big Daddy dotes on you, Brick. He can't stand Brother Man and Brother Man's wife. That fertility monster, she's downright odious to him, I can tell. That's the second thing we've got on our side. He likes me. The way he looks me up and down and over, he's still got an eye for girls.::Brick Pollitt: That kind of talk is disgusting.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Did anybody ever tell you you're a back-aching Puritan, Brick? I think it's a fine thing that a man on the doorstep of death can still look at a woman like me with what I call deserved appreciation., Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Let's go home.::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: Don't you want to ride with the children, honey?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: No!::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: [laughing] He's his sassy old self again, all right!::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Be quiet, woman!, Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Why did you and Brick suddenly decide to drive up from New Orleans?::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: For your birthday, what else?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: I had a birthday last year and the year before that. Didn't see you then.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Well, you know how Brick is sometimes.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Maybe he thought he'd be coming to my funeral, instead of my birthday.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: But Brick loves you! He does!::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: But does he love you?::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: What do you want, proof?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: If I was married to you three years, you'd have the living proof. You'd have three kids already and a fourth in the oven., Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: We never were a very happy family. There just wasn't much joy in this house. It wasn't Big Daddy's fault. It was just... you know how some families are happy., Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: What's all this about?::Gooper Pollitt: Doc, Big Mama wants the whole truth about the report we got from the clinic today.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: The truth, the truth! Everybody keeps hollering about the truth. Well, the truth is as dirty as lies!::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: Is there something I don't know, Doc?::Dr. Baugh: Well, Ida...::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: I want to know! Somebody must be lying! I want to know about my husand!::Dr. Baugh: He had the most thorough examination ever given at the Oppenheim clinic.::Gooper Pollitt: It's one of the best in the country.::Mae Pollitt: It's the best in the country, bar none.::Gooper Pollitt: They were ninety-nine percent sure before they even started.::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: Sure of what?::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Not now!::Mae Pollitt: The test was positive!::Gooper Pollitt: Mae, shut up.::Dr. Baugh: It's helpless, Ida. He knows it, too., Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Grown-ups don't hang up on their friends! And they don't hang up on their wives and they don't hang up on life! That's the truth and that's what you can't face!::Brick Pollitt: Can you face the truth?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Try me.::Brick Pollitt: Sure, somebody else's truth.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: So you're running again?::Brick Pollitt: Yeah, I am! Running from lies like birthday congratulations and many happy returns when there won't be any! [pause]::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: What did you say?::Brick Pollitt: Forget it.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Won't be any happy returns?::Brick Pollitt: Please just let me go home. Leave the place to Goober and Mae.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Leave the place? Who said I was gonna leave the place? I'll outlive you! I'll bury you!, Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: This is a deliberate campaign to ruin Brick!::Mae Pollitt: He don't need no help.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: [crying] And for the most sordid reasons on earth! Greed! Avarice and greed!::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: Margaret, darling, don't cry.::Mae Pollitt: Well, that takes the cake! Who are the tears for? Brick? Big Daddy? Or are they for yourself? Are you crying cause you're childless? You know why she's got no kids? Ask her big, beautiful husband!::Gooper Pollitt: Mae!, Gooper Pollitt: You said I never loved Big Daddy. How would you know? How would he know? Did he ever let anybody love him? It was always Brick, always. From the day he was born, he was always partial to Brick. Why? Big Daddy wanted me to become a lawyer. I became a lawyer. He said to get married, I got married. He said to have kids, I had kids. He said to live in Memphis, I lived in Memphis. Whatever he said to do, I did., Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: So you bought me a birthday present, huh?::Brick Pollitt: No sir, Maggie bought it.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: She's got good taste, that girl.::Brick Pollitt: In some things, yes, but not in men., Brick Pollitt: Why'd you let Mama buy all this stuff?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: The human animal is a beast that must die. If he's got money, he buys and buys and buys everything he can, in the crazy hope one of those things will be life-everlasting, which it can never be. I've suddenly noticed you don't call me Big Daddy anymore. If you needed a big daddy, why didn't you come to me? If you needed someone to lean on, why Skipper? Why not me? I'm your father! Why didn't you come to your kinfolk, the people that love you?::Brick Pollitt: You don't know what love means! To you, it's just another four-letter word.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: You've got a mighty short memory! What was there you ever wanted that I didn't buy?::Brick Pollitt: You can't buy love!::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Who do you think I bought it for? It's yours! The place, the money, everything's yours!::Brick Pollitt: I don't want things!, Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: I'm talking in Big Daddy's languge now. I'm his wife, not his widow. I'm still his wif!::Gooper Pollitt: What we've got here...::Mae Pollitt: What Gooper's saying is just a plan, a basis.::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: I'll tell you what your plan is. Margaret, what is it Big Daddy always says when he's disgusted?::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: He says bull when he's disgusted.::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: Yes, that's right. I say bull too, like Big Daddy.::Mae Pollitt: Well, coarse language don't seem called for to me.::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: Bull!, Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: This was what my father left me, this lousy old suitcase! And on the inside was nothing, nothing but his uniform from the Spanish-American war. That was his legacy to me! Nothing at all! And I built this place from nothing.::Brick Pollitt: That was all he left you?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: He was a hobo, the best-known tramp on the boxcar circuit. He'd worked once in awhile as a field hand, and I'd tag along. Sat on my bare bottom in the dirt, waiting for him. Outside of hunger, the first thing I remember is shame. I was ashamed of that miserable old tramp. I was riding boxcars with him when I was nine, something you never had to do. You'll never have to bury me the way I buried him. I buried him in a meadow alongside a railroad track. He was running to catch a freight and his heart give out. You know something? That old tramp died laughing.::Brick Pollitt: Laughing at what?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Himself, I guess. Old hobo tramp, not a nickel to his name, no future, no past.::Brick Pollitt: Maybe he was laughing because he was happy. Happy at having you with him. He took you everywhere. He kept you with him.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: I don't want to talk about that. [pause] Yeah, I loved him. I reckon I never loved anything as much as that lousy old tramp.::Brick Pollitt: And you say he left you nothing but a suitcase with a uniform in it?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: And some memories.::Brick Pollitt: And love., Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Did the storm cause any damage, Big Daddy?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Which storm you talking about, the one on the outside or the hullabaloo I heard going on in here? Heard some mighty loud talking. What's the powwow about?::Mae Pollitt: Nothing, Big Daddy, nothing at all.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: What's in them important-looking documents you got there, Gooper?::Gooper Pollitt: Nothing, sir, nothing much of anything at all., Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Look, Mama, he's wearing Brick's birthday present. I haven't given you my present yet, but I will now. I have an announcement to make.::Mae Pollitt: What kind of an announcement?::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: An announcement of life beginning. A child is coming, sired by Brick out of Maggie the cat. I have Brick's child in my body, and that is my present to you.::Mae Pollitt: Did you ever in all your born days hear such a bold-faced lie?::Gooper Pollitt: Shut up.::Ida 'Big Momma' Pollitt: [kissing Maggie] Thank you. Thank you very much.::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: Yes indeed, this girl has life in her body. And that's no lie. Gooper, I want to talk to my lawyer in the morning. Brick?::Brick Pollitt: Yes, Big Daddy?::Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: I'm going to go out and look this place over before I give it up. The place and the people on it., Brick Pollitt: A family crisis brings out the best and the worst in every member of the family.::Gooper Pollitt: That's the truth.::Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Amen.::Mae Pollitt: You want to talk about the truth? You're not pregnant!::Gooper Pollitt: Keep still, Mae.::Mae Pollitt: She's making it up!::Gooper Pollitt: I said shut up.::Mae Pollitt: Don't you try to kid us, Maggie!::Brick Pollitt: Mae, she's not kidding you.::Mae Pollitt: How can she be pregnant by you when you won't even...::Gooper Pollitt: Mae, will you be quiet!::Mae Pollitt: We occupy the next room and the walls between aren't soundproof. We hear the nightly pleadings and the nightly refusals!::Brick Pollitt: Not everybody makes as much noise about love as you do.::Mae Pollitt: Brick, I never thought you would stoop to her level!::Brick Pollitt: You heard what Big Daddy said. That girl's got life in her body.::Mae Pollitt: That's a lie!, Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt: Thank you for keeping still, for backing me up in my lie.::Brick Pollitt: Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door., Brick Pollitt: Big Daddy... What is it that makes him so big? His big heart, his big belly, or his big money?, Mae Pollitt: Gooper? [calling his name inquisitively] What have all the chil'ens been shot for?::Gooper Pollitt: Everything 'cept shootin' chickens, I guess.
Soundtrack: "Lost in a Summer Night" (uncredited) Composed by 'Andr Previn' (qv) and 'Milton Raskin' (qv), "Nice layout" (uncredited) Composed by 'Andr Previn' (qv), "Love Theme from Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" (uncredited) Composed by 'Charles Wolcott' (qv), "Dixie" (uncredited) Composed by 'Daniel Decatur Emmett' (qv), "Skina Marinka" (uncredited) Adapted by Marguerite Lamkin, "I'll Be a Sunbeam" (uncredited) Composed by E.O. Excell, "Boom, Boom and It Makes Me Crazy" (uncredited) Adapted by Marguerite Lamkin, "Kermit Returns" Composed by 'Andr Previn' (qv), "Fourth movement, Symphony No, 5 in C minor, Op. 67" (uncredited) Composed by 'Ludwig van Beethoven' (qv), "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" (uncredited) Traditional, "Some Folks" (uncredited) Composed by 'Stephen Foster (III)' (qv), "Soothe My Lonely Heart" (uncredited) Composed by 'Jeff Alexander (II)' (qv)
Playwright 'Tennessee Williams' (qv) so disliked this adaptation that he told people in the queue "This movie will set the industry back 50 years. Go home!", Both 'Lana Turner' (qv) and 'Grace Kelly (I)' (qv) were considered for the part of Maggie the Cat., The references to homosexuality in the original play were removed from the screenplay to comply with the Hollywood Production Code., Due to a musicians union strike, the movie lacks a traditional musical score composed especially for the picture. Instead, a "canned" score, comprised of pre-recorded pieces from the MGM music library, is used. Most of this music, including the evocative main theme, was originally composed by 'Andr Previn' (qv) for MGM's _Tension (1949)_ (qv)., 'Ben Gazzara' (qv), who originated the role of Brick on Broadway, turned down the role for the film version., 'Burl Ives' (qv) and 'Madeleine Sherwood' (qv) repeated the roles they had originated on Broadway in the 1955 production directed by 'Elia Kazan' (qv). ('Ben Gazzara' (qv) played Brick and 'Barbara Bel Geddes' (qv) played Maggie the Cat in that version.), Although 'Elia Kazan' (qv) directed "Cat" on Broadway, he was not involved in the film, despite having two cinematic successes with 'Tennessee Williams' (qv) work _A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)_ (qv) and _Baby Doll (1956)_ (qv). Kazan had had trouble with Williams, demanding that he rewrite the third act of the play to bring Big Daddy back on stage. He also was tired of having critics call him a "co-author" of Williams work, which he knew he was not. He would eventually direct one more Williams play on Broadway, _Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)_ (qv), but that film also would be directed by 'Richard Brooks (I)' (qv)., The original stage play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" by 'Tennessee Williams' (qv) premiered at Morocco Theatre in New York on March 24, 1955 and ran for 694 performances. 'Elia Kazan' (qv) directed the production, and among the replacement cast members during its long run was 'Jack Lord (I)' (qv) as "Brick"., 'George Cukor' (qv) turned down MGM's offer to direct the film because the references to Brick's homosexuality had been removed., This film was originally to be filmed in black and white, as was the standard practice with "artistic" films in the 1950s. (Virtually all film adaptations of the plays of 'Tennessee Williams' (qv) had been in B&W up to that time.) However, once 'Paul Newman (I)' (qv) and 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv) were cast in the leads, director 'Richard Brooks (I)' (qv) insisted on shooting in color, in deference to the public's well known enthusiasm for Taylor's violet and Newman's strikingly blue eyes., 'Elvis Presley' (qv) was offered the 'Paul Newman (I)' (qv) role, but "Colonel" 'Tom Parker (XI)' (qv) turned it down., 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv) proceeded with filming even though her husband 'Michael Todd (I)' (qv) was killed in a plane crash on the same day the film began shooting., One of the top ten box office hits of 1958., The original play "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" by 'Tennessee Williams' (qv) opened at the Morosco Theater in New York on March 24, 1955, ran for 694 performances and was nominated for the 1956 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Play., 'Tennessee Williams' (qv) wrote the role of Big Daddy with 'Burl Ives' (qv) in mind. Prior to the original stage production, Ives was known primarily as a folk singer, and many within the theatre community question Williams' decision. Ives won rave reviews in the role on both stage and screen, and went on to a long and prestigious acting career., When 'Paul Newman (I)' (qv) agreed to play the role of Brick, he was under the impression the film would simply adapt the original script into a screenplay. When the screenplay deviated wildly from the stage text over 'Tennessee Williams' (qv)' objections, Newman expressed his disappointment., Big Daddy 'Burl Ives' (qv) was only one year older than 'Jack Carson (I)' (qv), who plays his eldest son, and 16 years older than 'Paul Newman (I)' (qv), who played his youngest., The play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1955.
Gross: $17,570,324 (USA)
Rentals: $8,785,162 (USA)
Copyright Holder: Copyright 1959 Loew's Inc. and Avon Productions, Inc.
Filming Dates: 6 March 1958 - 19 May 1958
Budget: $3,000,000
The fifth Tennessee Williams dance to manage the blind, luxurious Mississippi plantation administrator Big Daddy Pollitt, knocked out that he's failing of cancer and neurotic via the unnatural and childless marriage ceremony of his favored alcoholic son Brick and his other son, Gooper, whose wife be clumsily speaking to carry forth another contained by the ceaseless line of waiflike "no-neck monster," celebrate his sixty-fifth marriage anniversary beside his family component. Brick's wife, Maggie, gorgeous and advantageous, try to no purpose to confer her husband out the decanter, while alternately captivating him and taunting him about his craze with his departed best mate and the guilt about their connection. The seamy tension reach a climax when the lawfulness of Big Daddy's condition is revealed, and he and Brick be in command of to extricate their difference.
Certificates: Portugal:M/12, Spain:18, Finland:K-3, South Korea:15, Argentina:13, Australia:PG, Canada:PG, Chile:14, Finland:K-12, Netherlands:AL, Portugal:17, Sweden:15, USA:Not Rated, West Germany:18, UK:12A, UK:X, UK:15, UK:15
Color Info: Color
Countries: USA
Genres: Drama
Languages: English
Locations: Coleman Estate, Muttontown, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA, Long Island, New York, USA, MGM Studios - 10202 W. Washington Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, Muttontown, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA
Runtimes: 108
Sound Mix: Mono
Tech Info: OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.85 : 1
Release Dates: USA:18 September 1958, USA:20 September 1958, Brazil:15 December 1958, France:26 December 1958, Italy:22 January 1959, Sweden:2 February 1959, West Germany:19 February 1959, Austria:13 March 1959, Finland:27 March 1959, Japan:7 April 1959, Hong Kong:4 June 1959, Denmark:14 August 1959, East Germany:22 December 1977, Germany:12 May 2006, Hungary:30 May 2006, Turkey:4 April 2009, Greece:25 June 2009
Just one pillow on her bed ... and just one desire in her heart!, This is Maggie the Cat..., Every sultry moment of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize Play is now on the screen!, All the sultry drama of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning Play is now on the screen!

In movie have been taken:

Jack Carson (actor)

Brian Corcoran (actor)

Hugh Corcoran (actor)

Larry Gates (actor)

Burl Ives (actor)

Bobby Johnson (actor)

Walter Merrill (actor)

Paul Newman (actor)

Robert 'Rusty' Stevens (actor)

Vaughn Taylor (actor)

Vince Townsend (actor)

Judith Anderson (actress)

Zelda Cleaver (actress)

Patty Ann Gerrity (actress)

Deborah Miller (actress)

Madeleine Sherwood (actress)

Elizabeth Taylor (actress)

Jeane Wood (actress)

Lawrence Weingarten (producer)

Richard Brooks (writer)

James Poe (writer)

Tennessee Williams (writer)

William H. Daniels (cinematographer)

Richard Brooks (director)

Ferris Webster (editor)

Merguerite Lamkin (miscellaneous crew)

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