Alicia Malone on the history of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF | TIFF 2022

Alicia Malone on Richard Brooks’ film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ literary classic CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.
This Oscar-nominated adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize​​-winning play proved a fateful shoot for Elizabeth Taylor: falling ill a week into filming, she decided not to accompany her husband Mike Todd in his plane Lucky Liz, which crashed en route to New York, killing everyone aboard. The distraught Taylor nevertheless managed to deliver one of her best performances as the feline, scheming Maggie, sexually frustrated wife of Paul Newman’s booze-sodden Brick Pollitt. A one-time football star and scion of a moneyed Southern family, Brick now nurses a broken leg and a secret hurt (an attraction to friend Skipper in the original play, but not in this bowdlerized version) while the rest of his dysfunctional family plot to inherit the estate of expiring family patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives). Spitting catty barbs about her avaricious in-laws and their “no-neck monster” children, Maggie torments Brick with her simultaneously unfettered and thwarted sexuality, flaunting Big Daddy’s attraction to her: “I think it’s mighty fine the way that ol’ fellow on the doorstep of death still takes in my shape with what I consider deserved appreciation.”
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[@geedavia1785]

I'm becoming *Obsessed with this film.* Thanks for the info...

[@samuelblachon95130]

OMG it's awesome to see alica again on TH-cam i remember her tiff and cannes vlog

[@bikerbudjr]

Crazy how Newman didn't win an Oscar for his performance

[@chromatinkiss]

I remember Alicia from the John Campea show. Great to see ya Alicia!

[@CalTxDude]

Alicia Malone, with her love and knowledge of these great films, is the "heiress-apparent" of Robert Osborne!
She also possesses Mr. Osborne's affable and pleasant demeanor.
PLUS, in her descriptions, she motivates viewers to want to watch the films!
No shade on any of the other hosts, however she is the real deal!

[@garrison6863]

I did not know that James Dean was going to be play Brick. Boy that would have been interesting. But I doubt if anyone could have topped Newman. He was simply brilliant.

[@daviddevine1030]

Awesome 👍😎👍

[@jlizamavera]

Great review. Thanks for share it.

[@65g4]

Great video love Alicia Malone

[@laminage]

I had no idea that in reality Brick and Skipper were "lovers" apparently. Also it showed how one misunderstanding created so much heartbreak.

[@greggschroeder]

I remember first seeing this in my 20s and being extremely unclear what it was about. The homosexuality aspect was so downplayed and the resolution so heterosexual, I was just confused. Wonderful performances - just me in a quandary.