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| Laurence Olivier | ... | Big Daddy | |
| Maureen Stapleton | ... | Big Mama | |
| Jack Hedley | ... | Gooper | |
| Robert Wagner | ... | Brick | |
| Mary Peach | ... | Mae | |
| Natalie Wood | ... | Margaret | |
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Heidi Rundt | ... | Dixie |
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Sean Saxon | ... | Sonny |
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Mark B. Taylor | ... | Buster (as Mark Taylor) |
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Elizabeth Caparros | ... | Trixie |
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Jennifer Hughes | ... | Polly |
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Sam Mansary | ... | Lacey |
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Gladys Taylor | ... | Daisy |
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Nadia Cattouse | ... | Brightie (as Nadia Catouse) |
| George Harris | ... | Sookey | |
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Brick, the son of a rich southern plantation owner, is drinking himself to death over some hidden pain. His wife Maggie is desperate to regain his love. Brick's father, known as Big Daddy, has returned from a clinic where he has gone for serious health issues, but has been told he has a clean bill of health. Brick's brother and his scheming wife have hopes of inheriting the huge plantation. Eventually a long conversation between Brick and his father bring out all the lies that have been tearing the family apart. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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6 December 1976 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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The original play "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" by Tennessee Williams opened at the Morosco Theater in New York City on March 24, 1955, ran for six hundred ninety-four performances and was nominated for the 1956 Tony Award for the Best Play. The play also won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1955. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Most people know this storyline by now: Maggie the Cat desperately wants latent homosexual hubby Brick to impregnate her and thus insure her standing in the eyes of terminal Big Daddy Pollitt. Compared to the 1958 movie version with Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, this 1976 TV movie is merely satisfactory. Both Wood & Wagner were clearly middle aged. At 46, Wagner's Brick looks more like a drunk who can't get out of a bathtub, than a young man who's college football days are but a few years behind him. As for his character's thoughts, intentions, it would appear that he wasn't able to get anything else accomplished except to convey that Brick is a drunkard. Wood is overly anxious throughout & overdoes her 'southern' accent to the inth degree. Unlike Burl Ives in the '58 version, Olivier's Big Daddy is just distant. Why would anyone even bother with him ? The only save in this mess is the always outstanding Maureen Stapleton as Big Mama, who parlays years of her husband's neglect and indifferent children into her character's crushed but still trying spirit.