Cat On A Hot Tin Roof [DVD] [1958] [2020]

I thought this was going to be boring. How wrong I was. Paul Newman is married to Elizabeth Taylor in this film. He hates her and he drinks whisky all the time. Burl Ives who is a plantation owner is celebrating his 65 th birthday. Or so he tries to. It ends up with them all arguing and trying to get their part of Burl Ives money and or property after he dies. Burl Ives has inoperable cancer. His family do not know this. It all ends up with Burl Ives telling his family and wife, to all shut up. The problem is they won't. The kids with their happy birthday and singing plus clapping, really got on my nerves. May who is the daughter in law, plays a very good part getting on every one's nerves and she is always being told to shut up. It all ends up in a big row. As Big Daddy ( Burl Ives ) tells them all what he really thinks of them all. Very good to watch. I would say this is a classic to be seen. Paul Newman, Burl Ives and Elizabeth Taylor are the electrifying actors in this marvellous film. PC. 16. 06.2018.

I remember this being on tv in the 70s, and the announcer saying what a great film it was. I watched, and wasn’t impressed. Now many years later, i agree with the guy from the tv. Great film and brilliant cast.

This is a high-quality DVD of a classic film - yes, the screenplay fudges the Brick/Skipper relationship, but the actors are excellent (Burl Ives in particular delivers a much more rounded characterisation than usual) and Brick's nephews and nieces have been very well cast as repulsive little brats! Definitely worth the modest price. The "strangeness" of the packaging is that this is a double-sided DVD with the original Panavision version on one side and a 4:3 cropped version on the other - what on earth for? Just as well to have 2 versions in my case, as the 4:3 version froze at about 73 minutes. I thought I'd got an unlabelled pirate copy until I read the notes on the DVD box!

Cat on A Hot Tin roof is a real gem on DVD. However, you need to watch it twice to get the deep story line.All the actors have played their parts well, but Newman and Taylor steal the show outright.Picture quality is very good and worth having in your collection.Highly recommend it.

Love this movie. The DVD was in great condition.👍

Seeing this film again recently reminded me just what a great film it is. It's a very powerful story and the film keeps closely to the original play. The acting couldn't be better. All of the actors are excellent. Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman are superb: he in the way he depicts his feelings of hopelessness and radiates such antipathy and tension; and she, in subtle glances and body language, her enduring love for him and disappointment that their marriage is childless and failing.I don't think a better film version of the play could be made than this one.

I love this film so much and highly recommend it. I bought it about 2 months back and watched it so many times already, the acting from Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor is fantastic and you're eyes are glued to the screen for the entire film. Although it may not be entirely accurate to the play it is still worth seeing and is a must for any classic Hollywood fan or movie buff!

I was really suprised with this film. It's definitely of it's time and a bit melodramatic compared to modern films but it's got a storyline that is still very relevant today and is really well acted. I've been watching some of the classic films recently and this one definitely stands out as a good one I'll be watching again.

After about 20 minutes DVD stops because of damageShould of returned it, but too late.

I Love the movie with Newman and Taylor, but I recieved the wrong dvd and it did not play in my Player.The company is sending me a new one for this region.

Je possède de film (import anglais) depuis plus de 10 ans , et je le regarde régulièrement avec le même plaisir, la même intensité... J'écoute bien le requiem de Mozart depuis mes 12 ans... et 30 ans après... Je me surprend à pleurer encore en écoutant ce chef d'oeuvreET BIEN "a cat on a hot tin roof"... C'est mon Requiem cinématographique !!!On sait combien les réunions de familles "imposées" durant lesquelles des êtres, certes liés par le sang mais non pas les mêmes valeurs, se retrouvent contraints de se côtoyer,de faire "comme si", ... tout le monde sait ou croit savoir sur les uns et les autres.... cette pression, ces faux semblants... de la dynamite, qui à la moindre secousse fait tout exploser et voler en éclat !Et bien voilà exactement le contexte de ce huit clos, servit par des acteurs de génie, avec au milieu d'eux un couple de diamants purs : Elisabeth Taylor et Paul NewmanLa raison de cette réunion? l'anniversaire de "big dady", qui revient de plusieurs semaines d'examen à l'hôpital... Et déjà les non dit, les mensongesEt ce couple, sublime, qui se déchirent, pourquoi? Pourquoi Elisabeth Taylor dit-elle "I don't deserve that..." les larmes dans ses sublimes yeux mauves...Paul Newman, qui s'enfonce dans l'alcool, pour fuir quoi? qui?... son prétexte "I don't get the swicth off in my head, the click"... Que veut-il éteindre?Personnage bouleversant, séduisant... terriblement séduisant sa femme E.Taylor lui dit, alors qu'il la repousse alors que certains de ses regards le trahisse, il l'aime, la désire... Quant à elle ... elle est éperdument amoureuse... d'où le titre de ce film...Son mari a beau être dur avec elle sous différentes formes... C'est lui qui la nomme "maggy the cat"... et de lui ordonner "jump off the roof maggy ... a cat get never injured"... Mais elle ne veut pas quitter cet homme, cette famille : so she reply "...I stand as long as I can..."ET voilà la clé qui va déverrouiller les non-dits, les mensonges, la cupidité, l'avarice... La ténacité de Maggy-the-cat... L'amour de cette femme non seulement pour son mari, mais aussi pour big-daddy... Ce patriarche, autoritaire, un homme du Sud qui s'est construit seul...Et qui va faire des prises de conscience...Un film CULTE pour de nombreuses raisons: - le couple extraordinaire constitué par Elisabeth Taylor et Paul Newman - l'ensemble des autres acteurs , tous jouent de façon très juste le personnage et plus particulièrement Burl IVES dans le rôle de "big daddy" - les dialogues, percutant, ciselés, parfois cruels, souvent touchant (le dialogue entre le père big daddy et le fils Paul Newman est exemplaire) - La réalisation de Richard BROOKS, qui se met au service de ses acteurs, de cette histoire - l'impermanence des thèmes abordés dans ce film : l'amour, les déchirures intérieurs... l'avarice quand se profile un héritage dans une famille... les relations ambiguës entre belle-soeurs...DVD a posséder dans sa DVDthèqueP.S : quant à moi les enfants savent que lorsque maman regarde " a cat on a hot tin roof" .... Il ne faut pas la déranger... A moins d'une urgence évidemment ... De plus mais aînés sourient lorsqu'ils m'entendent réciter par coeur les répliques...Il y a des expressions d'ailleurs qui sont devenus des "private joke" avec l'une de mes collègues américaine... au sujet des fameux "no neck monsters"....

We where looking forward to watching this movie, we love Paul Newman, but to our disbelief. Nothing. just Nothing!!!! I don't think we will ever get another movie at this site. We have been buying a few movies and never had this happen before. We just want our money back.

magnifique