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The Night of the Iguana (1964)
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Release Date:
6 August 1964 (USA)
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Tagline:
Man And Woman - Love And Lust - Ruin And Redemption - One Night They All Meet. more
Plot:
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 2 wins
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12 nominations
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(4 articles)
Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: An overwhelming study of life and illusion
(From t5m.com. 21 August 2009, 8:26 AM, PDT)
Producer Ray Stark Dead at 88
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 January 2004)
(From t5m.com. 21 August 2009, 8:26 AM, PDT)
Producer Ray Stark Dead at 88
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 January 2004)
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The best film of the Our Century
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Richard Burton | ... | Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon |
 | Ava Gardner | ... | Maxine Faulk |
 | Deborah Kerr | ... | Hannah Jelkes |
 | Sue Lyon | ... | Charlotte Goodall |
| Skip Ward | ... | Hank Prosner (as James Ward) |
 | Grayson Hall | ... | Judith Fellowes |
| Cyril Delevanti | ... | Nonno |
| Mary Boylan | ... | Miss Peebles |
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Runtime:
125 min | Germany:112 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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UK:12 (video rating) (1996) |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Canada:R (Nova Scotia) |
UK:X (original rating) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
West Germany:16 (f)
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The original Broadway production of "The Night of the Iguana," which made its Broadway debut on December 28, 1961 and ran for 316 performances, was Tennessee Williams last hit play. Iguana was nominated for the 1962 Tony Award for Best Play.
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Goofs:
Boom mic visible: Hitting Shannon on the head.
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T. Lawrence Shannon:
Nothing could be worse for a girl in your unstable condition, to be mixed up with a man in, in my unstable condition because two people in unstable conditons are like two countries facing each other in unstable conditons. The, eh, destructive potential, eh, could blow the whole world to bits!
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Featured in Coming Attractions: The History of the Movie Trailer (2006)
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A Note Regarding SpoilersNonno's poem
How does it end?
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This film, all and all, only gets better with each viewing. I first saw it as a child, and thought it odd and amusing. Yet even then I sensed something magical was going on in it, though I lacked then the adult realism to penetrate the world of Tennessee Williams. Subsequent viewings have only reinforced my feeling that this film may be the greatest film of the twentieth century. I say that not because it is an epic, or because William's play is so grand, but just because this play seems to so perfectly capture the age in which we live. We live, just as the Reverend Shannon does, torn between the desire to believe in an absolute, and the perils of such belief, between a reductionist 'realism' and an equally reductionist indulgence. The actors Kerr, Gardener, and especially Richard Burton, have sensed this, and their roles are so nuanced as to make one believe that what one is seeing is REALITY and not a theatrical performance. The emotional climax of the film comes at the moment when the old poet completes his poem and asks over and over again, in a paroxysm of painful joy---"Is it good? is it good?"---- Then he dies. Only the genius of Tennessee Williams come make such melodrama seem utterly convincing. For the artist who wrote this play has been complimented by the artists who directed and acted it. Great art leaves everything opened but nothing settled--- creating the sense that justice has been fully achieved. Here, all too rarely for the art of cinema, both grace and justice have indeed been fully achieved.