This brilliant work of cinema, based on the Tennesse Williams play, is a spectacular amalgam of wonderful acting and cinematography. Every actor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is dead on with his or her performance. The supporting actors show unique talent to keep up a great team. The best acting in the movie comes from the three main characters, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives. Taylor is charming and tragic in her sexually repressed role as Maggie the Cat, while Paul Newman's troubled soul hiding a dark secret as Brick is very compelling. Far from the role of a lovable snowman in Rudolph is the role of Burl Ives as the cynical Big Daddy. Together with wonderful direction by Richard Brooks, the film brings an important message of how mendacity affects each person's life. It is confrontational, as most of Williams's pieces are, and explores deep human emotions, and how those emotions contribute to a life shadowed by mendacity, rather than facing truth. While the story is tragic, it also carries great hope in the end for the characters. Truth overcomes mendacity in a bittersweet way.
Review of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
