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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Director: Richard Brooks Cast: Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Jack Carson

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  • DVD Release Date: 05/02/2006
  • Original Release: 1958
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 1,381

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Closed Caption; Commentary by biographer Doland Spoto, author of The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams; New featurette Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Playing Cat and Mouse; Theatrical Trailer; Languages: English & Français; Subtitles: English, Français, & Español

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Disc #1 -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1. Credits [1:51]
2. Bad Behavior [3:07]
3. Report on the No-Necks [4:31]
4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [4:25]
5. Big Daddy's Return [4:52]
6. Same Cage [4:20]
7. Where the Rocks Are [3:34]
8. What Kind of Truth? [4:10]
9. Maggie the Cat is Alive [7:29]
10. The Party Comes to Brick [4:28]
11. Breaking Mama's Heart [1:49]
12. Talking Tough with Brick [:36]
13. Disgust and Mendacity [5:22]
14. About Skipper [4:26]
15. Play by Play [2:42]
16. "I Let Him Down" [6:02]
17. Exchange of Truths [3:55]
18. Family Discussion [4:05]
19. "I Want Brick" [4:33]
20. Presence of Malice [3:10]
21. Cellar Full of Things [5:03]
23. Look at Me [4:04]
22. Big Daddy's Daddy [6:46]
24. The Storm Inside [2:53]
25. Maggie's Present [4:50]
26. Through with Lies [3:22]

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Editorial Reviews

This dynamic and commanding adaptation of 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. Don Kaye, All Movie Guide

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One of my all-time favorites, I can't believe I didn't have it in my library already!by JCRascal

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August 29, 2009: I have always loved this film, for any number of reasons: The superb performances by its actors, to start with, particularly Taylor & Newman, who proved to Hollywood once and for all, in my opinion, that they were more than just pretty faces. There is also the back-story of the making of the film, including Taylor's husband's untimely death, as well as her near-miss.

There is also the fact that the second half of the film is truer to the playwright's original vision, since the second act was completely rewritten for its original Broadway production, at director Elia Kazan's insistance. What we see in the second half of the film is very close to the original script, and as such carries much more weight, in terms of what it reveals to the audience about the characters, as layer after layer of pretense and "mendacity", as Big Daddy puts it, are stripped away.

The extras involved in this DVD are just icing on the cake.

Mendacityby Vovo

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May 08, 2009: Set in the sultry South, this story of the complexities of relationships and society's common use of mendacity sends the viewer on a roller coaster of untamed emotions and vulnerable enchantment. Newman and Taylor were at their heights is this delicious treat of a film. I only wish I had seen it sooner! This will definitely be something that I will watch again and again and share with my friends and family. Wonderful, wondeful film!

I Also Recommend: Who Am I This Time?, Giant, A Streetcar Named Desire, Gone with the Wind.