Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Deluxe Edition) | Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Deluxe Edition) | Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman | Breaking the walls!

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	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Deluxe Edition) Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman Warner Home Video, 2006 average customer review:based on 94 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One of the all time greats

Mendacity fills the air and the script. Taylor and Newman have to be the sexiest stars to ever light up a screen and Ives is the scene stealer supreme. Visually its like a soap opera as 90% of the story is in the big house. But the words that come rushing out of these marvelous actors isn't about just sex, its about life and everything that makes life worth living. These classic faces and this classic storytelling put this film on par with the best art ever made.

Breaking the walls!

There were three outstanding and bold films that faced without hindrances that thorny subject in the crudest possible way, resisting the attacks of the Moral league: Baby doll, Anatomy of a murder and this one. In the Fifties Decade: the most of filmmakers bet for one of these three options: science fiction, Noir Film or dense emotional conflicts. Of course, there were exceptions: Billy Wilder left behind his sarcastic irony with Sunset Boulevard in 1950 and decided to smile with Stalag 17 and Someone like it hot (curiously The Best Comedy in the Century), but Stanley Kramer, Otto Preminger, Elia Kazan , Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray and Richard Brooks were the most relevant social scalpels of the society along that dark decade.

Superb, complex and mature existential conflict around a woman who wants to be loved and her extremely heat and soul wounded husband, whose inner demons have him struggled swimming in alcohol; add to this hell the familiar pressure. Burl Ives gives an outstanding performance featuring the father in law of the grieved Miss Taylor.

Another sonorous adaptation of Tennessee Williams, who naked the soul of the North American society in the most intimate details.

Bernard Shaw wrote once: "There are married women who have not husband, while there are single women whom seem to surplus them; and one asks oneself what is better or worst: if not being corresponded by a legitimate right that belongs her or being corresponded by many rights that do not belong her."

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Excellent theater

Just an excellent story of strife, catharsis and redemption that is as potent today as it was in the 50's. Great play to begin with, and the movie retains it's theatrical ellements which i find personally gratifying. Excellent cast and acting. Love Maggie the Cat. Deffinately a fave.

It's sad that this is not the play Williams wrote. See the other version too.

This play is about a woman trying to redeem her husband who is drinking himself to ruin because he can't deal with the fact that he was in love with his dead football buddy - another man. If you want to see that story, consider getting the Rip Torn and Jessica Lange version from the '80s. The Paul Newman version was made in a time when it wasn't OK for Maggie to try to help her man own up to his love for his friend, so instead, the story became about her trying to save him from alcoholism. This is a much less dramatic topic, and it's frankly dull and offensive to a beautifully written story. It's like telling "Little Red Riding Hood" as a story about the perils of packing a picnic basket, without any mention of a big bad wolf. If you want to see the fabulous play Williams actually wrote, get the more modern one. If you just want to look at great acting and beautiful people in a badly mangled, lame story, get this one.

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