Earning both Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor Oscar nominations, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, based on Tennessee Williams' play, is the story of a southern American family in crisis.
In the wake of a friend's suicide, Brick (Newman) has turned to alcohol. His father is dying, his marriage is in disarray and his brother is attempting to steal his inheritance.
Set on one fateful day in the bed-sitting room of a plantation house in the Mississippi Delta, Richard Brooks' adaptation brings the absolute best out of an outstanding cast, whose deceptions, heartaches and fears are laid out with a tenderness that does great justice to Williams' Pulitzer Prize winner.