Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958

Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson
Genre: Drama
Rating: NOT RATED
Runtime: 108 minutes

Elizabeth Taylor has never been sexier than as Tennessee Williams's hot-blooded Maggie "The Cat" Pollitt, prowling around her boudoir in a slinky white slip. That's how you know her alcoholic, ex-football-player husband, Brick (Paul Newman), must ha… more »



Maggie:
Why are you looking at me like that?

Brick:
Like what, Maggie?

Maggie:
Like you were just lookin'.

Brick:
I wasn't conscious of lookin' at you, Maggie.

Maggie:
[seductively] I was conscious of it. [He coldly turns from her and rises on his crutches] If you were thinkin' the same thing I was...

Brick:
No, Maggie.

Maggie:
Why not?!

Brick:
Will you please keep your voice down.

Maggie:
No! I know you better than you think. I've seen that look before. And I know what it used to mean. And it still means the same thing now.

Brick:
You're not the same woman now, Maggie.

Maggie:
Oh, don't you think I know that? Don't you think I know that...

Brick:
Know what, Maggie?

Maggie:
That I've gone through this horrible transformation, that I've become hard and frantic and cruel...Oh Brick, I get so lonely.

Brick:
Everybody gets that.

Maggie:
Living with somebody you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone - if the one you love doesn't love you.

Brick:
Would you like to live alone, Maggie?

Maggie:
No! No, I wouldn't.

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