Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (TV 1976)

The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.

Director:

Robert Moore

Writers:

Tennessee Williams (play), Tennessee Williams (screenplay)

Stars:

Laurence Olivier, Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Laurence Olivier	...	Big Daddy
Natalie Wood	...	Maggie
Robert Wagner	...	Brick
Maureen Stapleton	...	Big Mama
Jack Hedley	...	Gooper
Mary Peach	...	Mae
Heidi Rundt	...	Dixie
Sean Saxon	...	Sonny
Mark B. Taylor	...	Buster
Elizabeth Caparros	...	Trixie
Jennifer Hughes	...	Polly
Sam Mansary	...	Lacey
Gladys Taylor	...	Daisy
Nadia Catouse	...	Brightie
George Harris	...	Sookey

Storyline

The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.

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Plot Keywords:

father in law daughter in law relationship | drunkenness | impotence | sexual frustration | mother son relationship | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 December 1976 (USA)

Also Known As:

La gata sobre el tejado de zinc

Company Credits

Production Co:

Granada Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The original play "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams opened at the Morosco Theater in New York on March 24, 1955, ran for 694 performances and was nominated for the 1956 Tony Award (New York City) for the Best Play. The play also won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1955.

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Connections

Version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

User Reviews

a sizzling Southern saga

Natalie Wood was probably born for the role of Maggie the Cat, a frustrated woman trapped in a marriage to a drunk who doesn't want to face the reality of life. Playing her husband Brick, a former football player and commentator, is real-life husband Robert Wagner - and those who only know him from 'Hart to Hart' will be surprised by how good an actor he is here.

In a set which is strictly budget, but still gets across the claustrophobia of a Southern summer, Wood and Wagner spar with each other, and balance the slight overacting (and strange make-up) of Laurence Olivier as Big Daddy, the patriarch who doesn't realise his time is up.

All three are very good in this play and some areas which were excised from the better-known Taylor-Newman film return to the script, and the plot is all the better for it. But this is Natalie Wood's show, and she knows it. Still glamorous in middle-age, she purrs and plots to save her marriage and get one over her greedy, grasping in-laws, Gooper and May, and their 'no-neck monsters'.

Well worth watching and very enjoyable.