Just one pillow on her bed... and just one desire in her heart.
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
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Earnest, classical in form, intimate and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20247/10
Yikes, but there's a lot of smouldering going on here... "Brick" (Paul Newman) is the former all-American boy type who has got himself injured and is married to "Maggie" (Elizabeth Taylor) with whom he has a pretty turbulent relationship based on mistrust. He is the son of the wealthy and tyrannical "Big Daddy" (Burl Ives) who is in turn married to the rather sheepish "Ida" (Judith Anderson) and the brother to the ostensibly insipid lawyer "Gooper" (Jack Carson) who is married to the rather selfish "Mae" (Madeleine Sherwood). So far, nobody much likes or trusts anyone, there's not enough love around this big mansion house to fill a teaspoon and with the old man starting to show signs of ailing, the vultures are beginning to gather to divide his huge house, 28,000 acres and $10 millions in the bank. What now ensues sees a strong performance from Newman, usually never far from a glass or a bottle, and some pretty intense scenes between himself and a very much on-form Taylor who manages to reconcile her character's formidable abilities at attack being the best form of self-defence with some wonderfully pithy and aggressive put-downs (all from the acerbic pen of Tennessee Williams). Fo
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Cast
- Elizabeth TaylorMaggie Pollitt
- Paul NewmanBrick Pollitt
- Burl IvesHarvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
- Judith AndersonIda 'Big Mama' Pollitt
- Jack CarsonGooper Pollitt
- Madeleine SherwoodMae Pollitt
- Vaughn TaylorDeacon Davis
- Larry GatesDr. Baugh
- Brian CorcoranBoy (uncredited)
- Zelda CleaverSookey (uncredited)
Crew
- Richard BrooksDirector
- Richard BrooksScreenplay
- James PoeScreenplay
- William H. DanielsDirector of Photography
- Charles WolcottOriginal Music Composer
- Ferris WebsterEditor
- Lawrence WeingartenProducer
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