Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [Blu-ray]

Director: Richard Brooks, Dan Fogelman

Overview

Based on a play by Tennessee Williams, this intense, absorbing drama centers on a wealthy Southern family. Though he doesn't know it, the family father is slowly dying of cancer. However, the other family members are well aware of his imminent demise and have their eyes on his fortune.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/09/2016
UPC:	0888574379438
Original Release:	1958
Rating:	NR
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:48:00
Sales rank:	16,597

Special Features

Commentary by Biographer Donald Spoto, Author of The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Playing Cat and Mouse Featurette; Theatrical Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Paul Newman	Brick
Elizabeth Taylor	Maggie,Deacon Davis
Burl Ives	Big Daddy
Jack Carson	Cooper
Judith Anderson	Big Mama
Madeleine Sherwood	Mae
Larry Gates	Dr. Baugh
Patty Ann Gerrity	Dixie Pollitt
Rusty Stevens	Sonny Pollitt,Sonny Pollitt
Hugh Corcoran	Buster Pollitt,Boy Pollitt
Deborah Miller	Trixie Pollitt
Vince Townsend Jr.	Lacey
Zelda Cleaver	Sookey
Tony Merrill	Party Guest,Party Guest
Jeane Wood	Party Guest
Bobby Johnson	Groom
Mildred Dunnock	Bit Part
Vince Townsend	Lacey - Servant
Al Pacino	Actor
Annette Bening	Actor
Jennifer Garner	Actor
Bobby Cannavale	Actor
Christopher Plummer	Actor
Katarina Cas	Actor
Giselle Eisenberg	Actor
Melissa Benoist	Actor
Josh Peck	Actor
Brian Thomas Smith	Actor
Scott Lawrence	Actor
Michael Patrick McGill	Actor
Kiff VandenHeuvel	Actor
Nick Offerman	Actor
Eric Schneider	Actor
Deacon Davis	Actor
Andr? Previn	Composer
Charles Wolcott	Composer

Technical Credits

Richard Brooks

James Poe

Tennessee Williams

Richard Brooks	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
James Poe	Screenwriter
Lawrence Weingarten	Producer
Lee LeBlanc	Special Effects
Tennessee Williams	Screenwriter
Wesley C. Miller	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Norwood A. Fenton	Sound Effects
Van Allen James	Sound Effects
Dean Smith	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Paul Newman's first big success came in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the 1958 film adaptation of playwright Tennessee Williams' claustrophobic drama. Newman got his first Oscar nomination, one of seven for the film, for his role as Brick Pollitt, the former football star, and Elizabeth Taylor was at her feline best as his dangerous wife, Maggie. Some of the more controversial elements of Williams' melodrama were downplayed in the film version so as not to ruffle the censors of the era. But it still remains a steamy, haunting piece of filmmaking under the direction of Richard Brooks. Remakes were executed for television in 1976 and 1984, the latter starring Jessica Lange and Tommy Lee Jones.