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 »



Big Daddy:
I put up with a lot of bull around here because I thought I was dyin'. That's when you started takin' over. Your loud voice and your old busybody buttin' in here, there, and everywhere. Sashayin' around here, makin' a big noise like a boss. I'm the only boss around here. I built this place with no help from you. And I'll run this place 'til the day I die. Now is that plain to ya, Ida? Is that perfectly clear to ya? Now I ain't gonna die. There ain't nothin' wrong with me but a spastic colon! Made spastic, I reckon, by all the lies and liars I've had to put up with around here. And all the hypocrisy I've had to live with these forty years I've lived with you.

Big Mama:
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

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