Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

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Director Richard Brooks also wrote the screenplay for this film version of Tennessee Williams' powerful play about a patriarchal Southern family. 

The film is somewhat stage-bound, but is entertaining on many levels and Elizabeth Taylor is excellent as Maggie the Cat - the wife of a frustrated young man called Brick (Paul Newman) who is under the control of his dying money-loving father.

Burl Ives is convincing as "Big Daddy, " the overwhelming plantation owner, and the rest of the cast turns in credible performances. The movie loses some of the play's impact by minimizing Brick's latent homosexuality.