5/18/2023 0 Comments Cat oa hot tin roof![]() The pair has chemistry – heck, a still photo of these two in 1958 has chemistry – but their scenes together are disastrously overwrought. ![]() ![]() An alcoholic ex-football star and favored son of the tycoon, Newman’s Brick holes up in an upstairs bedroom nursing whiskey and a bitter hatred for his undersexed wife (Taylor). Suffering the most are Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor. Yes, it’s fitting for the setting – a humid, suffocating Louisiana mansion where the family of an ailing tycoon (Burl Ives) connives to inherit his fortune – but the overall result is like watching a melodrama in a sauna. What was the thermostat set at during production of this Tennessee Williams adaptation? The way the actors go from limp to irate and back again – all while dripping with sweat – you would think that director Richard Brooks had it set at 98 degrees. ![]()
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