Cat on a hot tin roof (Motion picture). French & English.
Title:
Cat on a hot tin roof [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; an Avon production ; screen play by Richard Brooks and James Poe ; produced by Lawrence Weingarten ; directed by Richard Brooks.
Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson, Madeleine Sherwood, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1958. Based on the play : Cat on a hot tin roof / by Tennessee Williams. "Enhanced for widescreen tvs" -- Container. Special features: optional audio commentary by biographer Donald Spoto; "Cat on a hot tin roof: playing cat and mouse" making-of featurette (10 min.); original theatrical trailer (3 min.).
Summary:
In an southern mansion an alcoholic ex-football player, Brick, drinks his days away and bitterly resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. As the recently-gathered family faces the impending death of their patriarch Big Daddy, and battle over the inheritance of his vast estate, Brick's time with Big Daddy jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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