What is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Taming of the Shrew about?

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, 1958, Warner Bros., 108 min, Drama, USA. Tennessee Williams’ controversial play had to be somewhat sanitized for Hollywood, but what director Richard Brooks loses in frank sexual dialogue, he gains in Elizabeth Taylor’s sultry performance as a frustrated wife. Paul Newman plays her impotent husband, and their troubled marriage serves as the focal point for a gallery of gleefully appalling supporting characters, including Burl Ives as the family’s power-and-money-wielding patriarch, Big Daddy. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, 1967, Sony Repertory, 122 min, Comedy/Romance/Drama. Franco Zeffirelli’s first feature as a director and initial foray into Shakespeare serves as a vehicle for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, whose talents (and offscreen passion) are perfectly suited to the bard's tale of sexual rivalry. Nino Rota's superb score and Oswald Morris' lush cinematography add to the sense of sweeping romantic spectacle.

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What is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Taming of the Shrew about?: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, 1958, Warner Bros., 108 min, Drama, USA. Tennessee Williams’ controversial play had to be somewhat sanitized for Hollywood, but what director Richard Brooks loses in frank sexual dialogue, he gains in Elizabeth Taylor’s sultry performance as a frustrated wife. Paul Newman plays her impotent husband, and their troubled marriage serves as the focal point for a gallery of gleefully appalling supporting characters, including Burl Ives as the family’s power-and-money-wielding patriarch, Big Daddy.
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, 1967, Sony Repertory, 122 min, Comedy/Romance/Drama. Franco Zeffirelli’s first feature as a director and initial foray into Shakespeare serves as a vehicle for Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, whose talents (and offscreen passion) are perfectly suited to the bard's tale of sexual rivalry. Nino Rota's superb score and Oswald Morris' lush cinematography add to the sense of sweeping romantic spectacle.