Directed by Richard Brooks • 1958 • United States
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman sizzle in this delirious adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play. She’s the hot-blooded Maggie the Cat whose voracious desires can’t be fulfilled by her hard-drinking husband, Brick (Newman), a former football star unable to face up to the reason behind his impotence. Presiding over their tempestuous marriage is wealthy, cancer-stricken southern patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives) whose looming death unleashes a maelstrom of secrets and lies that threatens to tear the family apart.
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The Children’s Hour
Directed by William Wyler • 1961 • United States
Starring Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James GarnerA child’s lie has life-shattering consequences in this daring adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s celebrated play—previously filmed by director William Wyler as THESE THREE. Karen (Audrey Hepburn...
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz • 1959 • United States, United Kingdom
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery CliftGay panic, incest, and a sprinkling of cannibalism: Tennessee Williams’s one-act southern-gothic shocker gets an appropriately lurid screen adaptation cowritten ...
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These Three
Directed by William Wyler • 1936 • United States
Starring Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCreaPerformed to perfection by a top-flight cast, the first of William Wyler’s two adaptations of Lillian Hellman’s controversial stage play THE CHILDREN’S HOUR sidesteps the story’s then-explosive le...
