@@kirsimannonen1073 YES! I've noticed that despite the digital enhancements they constnatly "dummy down" the original vibrant colors, especially with the early Technicolor movies. I don't want to watch them by today's standards, but buy the way they were originally concieved!!! It drives me crazy! Thanks for watching!
During her bereavement, Taylor developed a stutter and the only time she didn't stutter was when she was in character, using that Southern drawl. LOVE this film!!!!!!!
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ and probably one of the most under rated, because her life over shadowed her career... seems odd to call a 2 time Oscar winner under rated, but I think I'm right. Va. Wolf is one of the greatest screen performances of all time!
I was 16 years old when I saw this movie and I was awe of Elizabeth Taylor's performance as Maggie The Cat. Even if the homosexuality was pretty much erased from the movie version the subtext was still there. The chemistry between Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman was absolutely fantastic
I LLLLOOVE this movie! I was introduced to this movie when I was 20 years old and I'm 55 now. Every younger person that I show it to, nieces and nephews and new friends that have never seen it, are hooked after watching this. A lot of them can't believe how beautiful people were in the 1950's. lol They always ask for more Tennessee Williams based movies. Thanks for the great content Steve. PS... I am ashamed to admit that I never recognized Judith Anderson as Big Mama! Especially after loving her work in Rebecca and Laura to name a couple. I thought she was awesome in this as well... and yah, Jack Carson will tare your heart out with his speech. I rambled enough...bye
Judith is unforgettable in Rebecca. Although sometimes I want to slap the 'housewifey'Joan Fontaine around, it's my all-time favorite Hitchcock. That movie is the perfection of (black&white) cinematic beauty. And Alfred had a nose for casting!
Dear Steve, I gotta tell you, in no special order, why this review pleased me so much. 1. It is a not a favorite of mine, not by a long shot, but...2. I LOVE when you do the famous Judith Anderson whistle. It makes LOL and chuckle way afterward. 3. Paul Newman is so mesmerizing, he's amazing, and more on other levels as well. 3. Jack Carson is so under-rated, it's all but a crime. Never a nomination, even, for some very glorious, varied works he's done. 4. I would have loved to have seen Mildred Dunnock do this - I 'm keen on Anderson, but this was her role. And as you pointed out, she could her own, 5. And you put it into much better words than I could have about Kazan versus Brooks. You hit the nail on the head: Kazan could bring out the poetry in Williams which is necessary to the production of his work. I never quite thought about it before, but that is what is missing from this movie. 6. And, finally, I'm so glad you're doing lengthier reviews. Your way earlier ones were often just a few minutes, This covers more detail and I always appreciate your humor and we get to hear you for a longer time! Thank you so much, many times over. Peace on Earth, Good Will to us all. Daniel
@@PhilippinesFarmLife Oh yes, I think Steve's reviews are really fantastic when he has time to fill in the details or backstory. He also seems to really love movies.
WOW! Thank you, Daniel. I really appreciate your appreciation! More than I can fully express. Thank you so much for your loving support and for watching. Have a wonderful August! Best Steve
Elizabeth Taylor was gorgeous! I was fortunate to meet her in early 2001 and those Violet eyes were still stunning! I was surprised how TINY she was. But her ON Screen appearance was huge!
My high school acting teacher tried to teach us about range. To illustrate his point he showed us this and then showed us Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and told us to focus on Elizabeth Taylor’s performances in both. I absolutely loved this lesson.
Can on a hot tin roof is another one of my favs, the gay undertones were so clear to me, even when I was a kid. Love, love this movie. Both Paul and Liz were peak beautiful at this time.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ .....from Wiki - "In London, the play was directed by Peter Hall and opened at the Comedy Theatre on January 30, 1958. Kim Stanley starred as Maggie, Paul Massie as Brick, and Leo McKern as Big Daddy." OMG!!! ... Can you imagine seeing the great Stanley playing Maggie the Cat?
What a treat and yes it is hot. Liz and Paul were absolutely gorgeous. I love this movie and the time period it was made. Another fantastic review. Best to you and Steve and the crew for all of your hard work. Stay cool.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! Steve, don't think I didn't hear that perfect Susan Hayward!!! What can I possibly add to the goddess Elizabeth Taylor? OK... No matter what tour de force role she filmed, she always had that English European Elegance underneath. I saw her opening night in "The Little Foxes" on Broadway. Her entrance was walking down a long majestic staircase in a magically designed green couture gown wearing a glowing emerald necklace earrings combo to unison gasps from the audience who stood and gave her a loud and louder, standing ovation. She loved every minute of its close to 5 minutes duration. She never broke personage and bathed in it. The rest of the cast didn't know what to do!!! Some were laughing discreetly without any success!! Steve, I prefer this format. Thank you for all you do.
Elizabeth taylor was stunning in this movie she almost didn't look real her beauty takes your breath a way to see her in person must of been something else her and paul newman had most gorgeous eyes i miss them but i can still watch there movies . 6:15
I saw Newman once and the eys wrere stunning. The closest I got o Elizabeth was seeing her jewery and some memorabilia a few years back, Incredible collection!
Thanks you for doing this review, dear Steve. Ms. Taylor and Mr. Newman are scorching - so much chemistry, so beautiful. I hope young people are discovering this classic to see what real movie stars can do. Jack Carson died way too young. An ex of mine loved doing Maggie the Cat imitations and used to call me "Brick" (as if I could live up to that!). RIP Ross.
If you're called that you must have the qualifications. I say, grab the compliments when you can. I had an ex who referred to me as Mrs Danvers ( Judith Anderson) in " Rebecca". Nice. LOL! Thanks for watching!
Steve, thank you. Always the best. In no time time, Burl Ives showed he had range. First he played Big Daddy from and in Hell to a snowman six years later.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ I hope you realize I was trying to be humorous. Steve, have you been working on your Bette? This time, you sound less like Josephine/Tony C in Some Like It Hot.
This is an amazing movie. There really isn't even a mediocre performance anywhere, even the no-necks are great no-necks. I grew up in the desert and the high mountains. I never quite understood Williams until I wound up on the gulf coast one year. Who knew drama could be so climate-dependent. Nothing brightens my day like a Steve Hayes review. Thank You!
Nothing brightens mine like hearing a compliment like that! Thanks so much!!! Williams took that climate and made it work in every play he wrote. The heat does things to people, brings out their hidden desires and angst. He was a master at depicting both.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ Well, you know what they say: "It's not the heat, it's the humidity". Thank you for all the great times and here's to many more. Long may you reign.
Love your Big Daddy!! I am crazy about anything with Jack Carson and this was the first film I saw him in where he wasn't the funny wisecracker. Great acting from everyone in this cast, and I could watch Elizabeth Taylor forever. Thank you for this mid-Summer treat!!
You're so welcome. Jack could be very vulnerable and versatile. I love him as Jame's Mason's bitter agent in "A Star Is Born" with Judy Garland. He was just great!
Hi Steve. The Treat Williams/Ann-Margret TV movie was actually a version "A Streetcar Named Desire". I only bring it up because Williams died this past year and it's work worth seeing. Thanks again for a great rundown of a classic film. It's odd, even swept clean of homosexual references, I see the film and always think Brick was in love with his dead friend. And that's without ever seeing the play. It seems to be the only conclusion as to why he's always drunk and on the rocks with Maggie. The innuendo - intentional or not -- is very much there.
Just love your movie reviews Steve and this one was brilliant . Taylor and Newman are excellent but the outstanding performance goes to Burl Ives . He was brilliant in both this and The Big Country and delighted he got an Oscar for one of them .
Steve, wonderful review! I love this movie...it just typifies all those smoldering southern emotions. Not to mention all the wonderful actors. Plus, Steve, I do love your longer reviews. I know they take a lot of work and effort, but I do love listening to your wonderful observations. I hope you're having a fabulous and profitable summer. ❤ Thanks for doing these.
Every time I watch your reviews I can’t wait to watch the film again. Film producers would be wise to commission you to review their films. Great advertising!
I wonder if Montgomery Clift would have played Brick (if not for that car crash)? Such a shame; that handsome man. This film is always a fun watch; everyone gets scenery to chew on, and Liz in that white dress! What an eyeful. It's always a pleasure to watch TOQATM, all the best! Have something tall and cool to drink, and watch out for them no-neck monsters! 😎
I had my own family no-neck monsters...I've even dated a few occasionally.... LOL..I don't think Monty would have been right, he'd been through the horrible crash that smashed up his face and confidence ,was heavily into painkillers and his focus was all over the place. The thing that make's Paul so great, is his masculine self assuredness until the liquor catches up with him and he's forced to show his anguished vulnerability. Monty wore his vulnerability on his sleeve...incidentally, I love them both. Thanks for watching! Steve
This is one of the movies that really opened young me's eyes up to the complexities and struggles of homosexuality and helped me appreciate the frustration they go through trying to "fit" into a hetero world. Steve is spot on in his appreciation of these fantastic performances, but what brings me back here time and again is Mr. Hayes' ebullience and joy in sharing this material, plus the priceless behind-the-scenes stories he shares. He is just one of the reasons life is so sweet sometimes.
FINALLY! I’ve waited patiently for your fabulous review of one of my very favorite films of my all-time film queen Elizabeth❤️. EVERYONE chews the scenery up in this scorcher of a summer movie! With a top-drawer first rate cast like this one, you just know it’s going to be such fun to wallow in all this Southern-fried drama for two hours! Thanks again for a great review! You and Johnny have a great summer 😊
Steve- I know you taped this in the Summer, but as I watch this in January, it’s 31 degrees here in Atlanta. Your great intelligence and humor warm up any room, so thank you!
Hello Steve! This was so well said (by you) and I can't add anything more. Thanks for high-lighting the wonderful Jack Carson and the fine actor/singer Burl Ives. Most of us now, "old kids," were first introduced to Mr. Ives when he was featured in the classic Christmas cartoon, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," which still remains a very popular holiday favorite. It was initially shown in 1964, and if you were born in some old year, say 1956 (as I was) then your eight year old eyes shone with wonder and excitement.
Actiually, I was eleven and watched it faithfully every Christmas as well as my other holiday favorite; " Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol". I own both on DVD and watch them every year. Thanks for watching! Steve
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ Hello Steve, thank you for the nice reply! I also loved the voice of Jim Backus in that wonderful animated holiday special, "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol." (Wow, there were several "well-known voices," in that gem, which a good many folks out here would immediately recognize). Steve, have you ever considered doing a review of one (or both) of these Christmas classics? I am sure that there are countless stories/facts you might uncover, and we would all learn something fun and interesting in the process. Well, it's just my "two-cents." (With inflation, it's now a buck-and-a half! 😁) Cheers to you and Johnny!
One of your very best reviews, Steve - and that's saying a lot! Your insight into the essence of the play, the differences between Brooks and Kazan, Williams's opinions on the film versions, details of the supporting cast - well, everything. I'm addicted to your reviews! Humor, insight, background. Thank you so much!
My pleasure! You made my day! I hope you subscribe, so I can visit you with a new oner each month! have a lovely summer and thanks so much for watching! Steve
this is one of my favourite films, so many times I looked for your review. Thank you. Elizabeth Taylor should have won the Oscar for Cat but she was a "bad girl" with the Eddie Fisher affair.
The scene with Newman and Ives in the basement (which of course is not in the play) is a tour de force for both actors. An amazing and unforgettable scene.
I always thought this would play best in an outside theatre on a hot summer night with a water & fan system spraying misty water over the audience out from the stage sides. ⚙
I'm 68, and I grew up in the sixties watching movies from the fifties on TV. So often I was baffled by what the adults were doing, and why, and this movie is a great example. Even watching it in my late teens, I was asking myself if they were really implying that Paul Newman's character was gay, or was he just punishing his wife for cheating on him. Gigi was another one that confused me. Beneath the eye candy of the period artifice, I had no idea what everyone was trying to do to Gigi, and wondered why it was such a relief for Louis Jourdan to propose to her. These are just two examples of how sexuality was kind of blurred in those days, and how it played out in the mind of a kid in the suburbs watching this stuff. Great fun, thanks!
I grew up at the same time and was equally confused by many of the things I saw, or percieved I saw, in the films on " NBC Saiturday Night At The Movies. However, I noticed, even then, how much more liberal things became as we moved further into the 1960's, so by the time I saw "Women In ,Love' in 1970 with Olver Reed and Alan Bates wrestling nude in front of the fireplace, I was blown away. as well as delighted! It was a marvelous time to be young and watching movies and I think it produced the youthful love and enthusiasm I have for them to this day. Thanks for watching! Steve
Oooohhhhh, Liz Taylor in that slip, Paul Newman........in anything; two stunningly beautiful people. I LOVED this movie. Everyone is in top form in it (imo) and it can have you heartbroken at one minute and ready to knock someones block off the next. Brilliant movie. God, to look like that in a petticoat😮❤❤❤ Thanks Steve xx
I look forward to your reviews even when I am not crazy about the movie 😊 You have introduced a few i hadn't seen and fell in love with like 'A letter to 3 wives'.
LOVE A Letter to 3 Wives. Love love love. Just give me Linda Darnell, Connie Gilchrist, Thelma Ritter, Florence Bates, Both Douglas's, Ann Sothern and I'm happy. Deeply.
The TV version with Natallie Wood as Maggie and her husband Robert Wagner as Brick and Sir Laurence Olivier was very. good and adhered to Tennesee Williams' play.👍
OMG, I didn’t know MIke Todd had died at the start of the shoot. I always thought Elizabeth was at her most beautiful in this movie. She was amazing in this film.
I always enjoy hearing and seeing you create the essence of each movie you select. The excitement you present is always fun and inspiring. I been a fan “ Let’s Go To The Movies “ when you review the movies I remember actually how I saw them at the theater and television. Thank you.
When I first moved to NYC, on of my boyfriend's elderly friends could never remember my name, but he said my eyes reminded him of Paul Newman's so he called me Paul. Even though that relationship is long over, I recently saw one of his friends on the street, we chatted, and he called me "Paul."
Hilarious! IBack in the '80's, I worked in a restaurant on Grove Street in the Village where there were two waiters both named Steve. The other one had been there longer, so I had to change my name to avoid confusion and every so often I'll run into someone who calls me " NICK"! So butch! LOL!
This film has held up well over the years. A great choice for a hot summer. Burl ives had so much more to his character as Big Daddy compared to Rufus in The Big Country, who was just a standard villain. I had never thought about them being in the same year, so thanks for bringing that up. Maybe it was studio politics.
Yes...I never figured out why they alowed Ives to be nominated for " The Big Country" over " Cat"? But I'm sure that his being in showey roles in two mega box office hits asdured him the Oscar...besides his being incredbly talentd of course .
Thank you for another wonderful review, I love your impersonations! I don't know if it's true but I heard that Tab Hunter was the first choice to play Brick, in this interview he also said that he was offered Sweet Bird of Youth and Summer and Smoke, but that he turned them all down and those were the biggest regrets he had!
Loved this review Steve. I noticed there was no mention of the 70's TV version with Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner and Sir Laurence Olivier. I thought Wood was excelent as Maggie and Olivier was more powerful and malevolent than Ives. This film and "The Long Hot Summer" are always good recommendations for a steamy summer and I hope you review that latter pot boiler soon. ❤
What's w/ the whistling when you say "Judith Anderson"? I've seen this, but for some reason, it's the version w/ Jessica Lange that sticks with me: "A Chaaaaald Is Comin'!" 😄
Anderson had a slight whitsling "S", that I tend to exaggerate, for comic effect. I liked the Lang and Jones version as well. With marvelous Kim Stanley as " Big Mama".
What an incredible review by STEVE HAYES. I'm so glad your channel popped up on my screen. I'm a new devoted fan. I love how you didn't give up the end of the movie before it was time but that you went through the scenes in a slowly revealing way. This movie happens to be one of my absolute favorites. I cannot find a scintilla of problem with it - everything from the plantation living, the mindblowing acting, the casting, it's all too much to absorb in one sitting. So I've seen it so many times I'm on my second DVD copy. Thank you for your wonderful channel.
Wow...thanks Steve I enjoyed every minute of your review. Tennessee Williams - his plays and short stories are a gift to us. As you noted so many of his written work is poetry. I knew some of the back story on this film (what a cast) and now know more...really appreciated. I really appreciate much of the literature and plays to come from the American southeast. By the way, on several plane trips, I watched a multi episode documentary on the films of Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward - both very remarkable, smart and very talented performers...PS finally I got in the mail the film "Female on the Beach"...I've hosted dinners with a series of buds and after dinner we watch Joan contending with the hot beachcomber...thank you for introducing me to that (dare we call that "tawdry") film...cheers my friend!!
hey Michael, Hooray! No better way to get through the long hot summer than a touch of Tennessee Williams and a " Female On The Beach"! I'm so glad you and the Buds are enjoying it! Love those ankle strap heels in the sand! Happy August and thanks so much for the lovely compliments and for watching! best; Steve
Ah. Steve! I finally saw this movie about ten years ago and changed my mind about Elozabeth Taylor. I saw National Velvet, and she was amazing! But I realized just how wonderfully subtle she could be in that screen door scene ("just stayin on it, I guess"). She has this great slow burn when she answers his question, and then she blows him a kiss! I'm smiling because my late mother said the sheriff in her little Southern town and his brood of children looked just like the "no neck monsters!" She had great stories about the impact of the Debbie Eddie Liz scandal, and still didn't like Liz but hated Eddie even more, although she'd once been a fan. I would tease her because she was born about a month after Liz and exactly two days before Debbie Reynolds, on Warren Beatty's soon to be birthday! She didn't like Debbie or Warren, either! She thought Joanne Woodward was better than all of them! Just a little chuckle for you, Steve.
Mothers do have their opinions. My mother was scandalized when she saw ' Cleoptra" with a group of her girlfriends. The next morning over breakfast I asked what she thought of the movie and Liz. " It was way too long and I think it's terrible the way they allowed everything on her to just hand out!" Later on in the '60's when the "topless" look was in style there was no living with her! I can't imagine what she'd say today...yes I can...nevermind! LOL!
@@peterd.9522 It wan't easy for her. She was a solid actress, but after the Oscar and all that , they tried to push her as a sexy vamp of sorts. She never had the smoldering sex appeal before the camera that came so nauturally to her husband. She gave some really good performances, but she wasn't always easyu to cast and had to fight for good parts.
Have enjoyed your reviews for a long time. Loved the Burl Ives impression in this one & Big Daddy's lines about mendacity have always been my favorite use of that word. Glad you included that word in your interpretation.
Love how you explore the context of many pertinent aspects from script, to stage, to film and more. I'd love to know which version(s) you think (that are on film or tape) are worth seeing.
Some films taken from plays that I think are better than their source materials are; " Picnic", " Seperate Tables", The Chalk Garden", "A Streetcar Named Desire", Whos' Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" and " Suddenly, Last Summer" earlier plays that I think were better movies are: " Stage Door" ( '37) & " The Women" ( '39) & " The Philadelphia Story" ) ('40").
Excellent review. One small note: Treat Williams and Ann-Margret did Streetcar on TV, not Cat. There was another TV Cat with Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner with Laurence Olivier as Big Daddy and Maureen Stapleton as Big Mama.
As always, fabulous review my friend! It’s giving me a different perspective on this movie and I plan to see it again. I will say sometimes the southern accents leave me a bit cold but I shall Marshall on with this!
I love your reviews. You have filled me in on all the details I missed when I saw this movie in my 20s. Now 67 yrs old. Have you reviewed Butterfield 8?
I have a strange story about this movie. Before Xmas 2008, I was out and about doing holiday errands. I stopped for a bite, and heard the usual loop of Xmas music that I usually blank out. Then I heard Holly Jolly Xmas by Burl Ives. All of a sudden I said out loud, Big Daddy! Then, it was, why did I say that? It's a good movie, but I haven't seen or thought of it in years! Besides, that song never did that to me before. When I got home, I turned on Turner Classic to see what was playing. Yep, it was CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. It had to be at least 10 years since I last saw it. Thanks for your great review. It was very interesting to hear about all the stage productions. I have to ask you if you attended Syracuse University drama department?
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ for some reason I thought you might have been in the area. I graduated from Syracuse and loved the area, except for those brutal winters!
I remember discovering this one when i was a teen and feelings so many things. hahaha Just wonderful and God, were they gorgeous and sexy? Another fantastic video! Thank you.
Steve I look so forward to your reviews. This is a great choice for a steamy, sweltering summer! The thing that struck me about this film the first time I saw it (as a kid) was everyone is schvitzing profusely throughout the entire movie! I wonder if that was deliberate or it was just so damn hot when they were filming. By the way I love your impression of Judith Anderson with the whistling dentures!
I noticed COAHTR is streaming on one of my services...now I've got to watch it...again. Thanks Steve! BTW, I think you'd kill it as Big Daddy in a revival.
I always like your videos. We seem to like the same movies. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is one of my all-time favorites; I've seen it at least a dozen times. The acting is outstanding. I do agree that the removal of Skipper's homosexuality made the movie confusing. It just was not clear why Skipper would have killed himself. Look where we've come since that time, where now a movie like Brokeback Mountain can be made. That is one movie that I cannot watch a second time, because it was so good and so crushingly sad.
Dear Steve, It has been too hot to breathe in London but suddenly it's cooler and there's torrential rain so I can write to thank you for your review of this fascinating film. I saw it first when I was at school and was genuinely confused by some of the relationships - Elizabeth Taylor is so unbelievably lovely that a paraplegic wouldn't be able to keep away from her, and we're supposed to believe Paul Newman isn't interested and would rather cling to his crutch? (Perhaps there should be an "o" in that word!!) Like one of your other readers, I've never recognised Judith Anderson as Big Mama, and how in Heaven's name Burl Ives won the Oscar for another film and not this is beyond me. Poor Gooper is married to a woman with a face like a shovel, Heaven help him, and the film suffers from the removal of what should clearly be at the heart of the sexual problems between Maggie and Brick. I saw a documentary made long after in which Elizabeth Taylor spoke about her way of working, which was to save everything for the shot itself, so that in this film Paul Newman said to her when she delivered a line with such meaning "I wasn't ready for that". Mike Todd's death was an absolute tragedy for her, not only because he completely adored her but because he left her with huge debts (this was typical - I read Joan Blondell's autobiography; she'd been his previous wife). I don't think for one moment she would have got involved with or married Eddie Fisher if Mike Todd had lived, and she wouldn't have had to film "Butterfield 8", which she had to do to earn money. It's a miracle that Elizabeth Taylor survived some of the real-life dramas she went through. Very best wishes, Alida
It is indeed. there is a new documentary out cxalled " Elizaebteh : The Lost Tapes", which I saw at the Tirbeca Film fest here in New York back in June. She planned to wriite an autibiography and so, with the help of a film mkaer who's name escapes me, recordered these tapes around the time of the V.I.P.'s. Thedoc itself is really nothing new, except you get to sit witha conversational Elizabeth as if you were across the table having drinks at trwiglight and she's funny, frank and fabulous. I think Mike was the one she really loved. He was a wheeler /dealer fro way back and charm the fangs from a cobra. he called her up the morning after her divorce became final from poor Michael Wilding, who she admits she henpecked to death, and tokd her he was taking her out to mlunch. he then badgered her for three hours over why she absolutely had to marry him and she really had no choice in the matter. She tells the story and concludes it by saying; And you know, but the time lunch was over he'd managed to throughly convince me. I couldn't think of a single reason why I shouldn't marry him. And, of course, we did.'" I loved her. When she had a good director who believed in her and supported her as an artist, she could do marvelous things. I loved her in this, " Suddenly, Last Summer" and " Whos's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" Simply spectacular. As for Burl Ives and the Oscars, the fact that he wa in two big . hit movie in one year automatically guarabnteeted hsi winningm though why they diidn't give it to him for " Big daddy", is beyond me...but then, the Oscars often are. Why give the Oscar to the following over the follwoing; Donna Reed over Thelma Ritter? Grace Kelly over Judy Garland? Jose Ferrar over William Holden? Paul Lukas over Humphrey Bogart? Ronald Coleman over Monty Clift? Now for the two worst....Art Carney over Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino and Robert Donat over Charles Laughton who wasn't even nominated for " The Hunchback Of Notre Dame"! Don't get me started...too late, I already did.... LOL! Stay cool, lovely to hear from you, as always and thank you for putting up with my ravings! Best; Steve
I saw this movie on tv as teenager several times and I loved it. Since I live in Germany and on tv all foreign- language movies were - and are - dubbed into German, I have not heard Elisabeth Taylor doing the southern accent. And of course it is better in original, in english. Thank you very much and best regards!
This film is shot so beautifully. Digital can’t hold a candle to actual photography.
This, this, this! Bring back those colours!
You got that right!
I completely agree with you.
@@kirsimannonen1073 YES! I've noticed that despite the digital enhancements they constnatly "dummy down" the original vibrant colors, especially with the early Technicolor movies. I don't want to watch them by today's standards, but buy the way they were originally concieved!!! It drives me crazy! Thanks for watching!
During her bereavement, Taylor developed a stutter and the only time she didn't stutter was when she was in character, using that Southern drawl. LOVE this film!!!!!!!
Yes. She pulled herself together and pulled all the stops out to boot. Amazing actress!
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ and probably one of the most under rated, because her life over shadowed her career... seems odd to call a 2 time Oscar winner under rated, but I think I'm right. Va. Wolf is one of the greatest screen performances of all time!
I was 16 years old when I saw this movie and I was awe of Elizabeth Taylor's performance as Maggie The Cat. Even if the homosexuality was pretty much erased from the movie version the subtext was still there. The chemistry between Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman was absolutely fantastic
I think so too and often wished they'd done another one together.
This is one of my favorite Paul Newman/Elizabeth Taylor movies. They both look absolutely amazing and are at their prime!
Yes. I so wish they would've teamed for another film.
Stunning!
@@goodowner5000 Between you and me, so do I!
I LLLLOOVE this movie! I was introduced to this movie when I was 20 years old and I'm 55 now. Every younger person that I show it to, nieces and nephews and new friends that have never seen it, are hooked after watching this. A lot of them can't believe how beautiful people were in the 1950's. lol They always ask for more Tennessee Williams based movies. Thanks for the great content Steve. PS... I am ashamed to admit that I never recognized Judith Anderson as Big Mama! Especially after loving her work in Rebecca and Laura to name a couple. I thought she was awesome in this as well... and yah, Jack Carson will tare your heart out with his speech. I rambled enough...bye
Judith is unforgettable in Rebecca. Although sometimes I want to slap the 'housewifey'Joan Fontaine around, it's my all-time favorite Hitchcock. That movie is the perfection of (black&white) cinematic beauty. And Alfred had a nose for casting!
Never enough! I'm "Ramblin' Rose" , so just ramble on, I love it! Thanks for watching!
@@willemvandeursen3105 He certainly did! I always thought Judith should have had the Oscar that year,. Unforgettable.
Dear Steve, I gotta tell you, in no special order, why this review pleased me so much. 1. It is a not a favorite of mine, not by a long shot, but...2. I LOVE when you do the famous Judith Anderson whistle. It makes LOL and chuckle way afterward. 3. Paul Newman is so mesmerizing, he's amazing, and more on other levels as well. 3. Jack Carson is so under-rated, it's all but a crime. Never a nomination, even, for some very glorious, varied works he's done. 4. I would have loved to have seen Mildred Dunnock do this - I 'm keen on Anderson, but this was her role. And as you pointed out, she could her own, 5. And you put it into much better words than I could have about Kazan versus Brooks. You hit the nail on the head: Kazan could bring out the poetry in Williams which is necessary to the production of his work. I never quite thought about it before, but that is what is missing from this movie. 6. And, finally, I'm so glad you're doing lengthier reviews. Your way earlier ones were often just a few minutes, This covers more detail and I always appreciate your humor and we get to hear you for a longer time! Thank you so much, many times over. Peace on Earth, Good Will to us all. Daniel
Danielstanwyck2812 I agree with you 100%!
@@PhilippinesFarmLife Oh yes, I think Steve's reviews are really fantastic when he has time to fill in the details or backstory. He also seems to really love movies.
Right there with you!
WOW! Thank you, Daniel. I really appreciate your appreciation! More than I can fully express. Thank you so much for your loving support and for watching. Have a wonderful August! Best Steve
@@PhilippinesFarmLife Thank you SO much!
Elizabeth Taylor was gorgeous! I was fortunate to meet her in early 2001 and those Violet eyes were still stunning! I was surprised how TINY she was. But her ON Screen appearance was huge!
Mesmerizing.
Right on. I met her when she was on tour to promote her new fragrance White Diamonds. This was in 1985. You’re right- so petite and beautiful.
My high school acting teacher tried to teach us about range. To illustrate his point he showed us this and then showed us Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and told us to focus on Elizabeth Taylor’s performances in both. I absolutely loved this lesson.
Perfection!
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ I know right???
One of my all time favorites to watch during a long hot summer
Oh, absolutely. The perfect summer movie.
You are a treasure. As are the films you review! Thank you.
Thank you for watching and letting me know you like them.
Can on a hot tin roof is another one of my favs, the gay undertones were so clear to me, even when I was a kid. Love, love this movie. Both Paul and Liz were peak beautiful at this time.
I think so too.
Don't get much better than a cast like that doing Tennesse!
Love you guys, great summertime pick!
Thanks, so glad you enjoyed it. I thinks it's perfect for summer as well.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ .....from Wiki - "In London, the play was directed by Peter Hall and opened at the Comedy Theatre on January 30, 1958. Kim Stanley starred as Maggie, Paul Massie as Brick, and Leo McKern as Big Daddy."
OMG!!! ... Can you imagine seeing the great Stanley playing Maggie the Cat?
That's Jack (Hawaii Five-O) Lord in the photo with Barbara Bel Geddes (@3:10). He took over from Ben Gazzara 😊
Thank you for saying this. I was madly in love with Ben Gazzara when I was young and this didn't look like him at all.
@@donaldauguston9740 It's funny I thought, that's too handsome to be Ben (sorry) and I thought it was Cliff Robertson. But It is Jack Lord.
@@peterd.9522 Well, I loved Ben, but Cliff Robertson could have taken me in a New York minute. Have a great week.
@@donaldauguston9740 lol you have a great one to;
I would'a paid to see either.
Great review! Thanks for sharing, Steve. Madelyn Sherwood, Mother Superior on "The Flying Nun".
Fasten your whimpoles, it's going to be a bumpy flight. .
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ The Flying Nun's winged headpiece was called a Cornette. I just re-watched the first episode a few days ago.
@@niceguy5976 That's not my fault. LOL!
What a treat and yes it is hot. Liz and Paul were absolutely gorgeous. I love this movie and the time period it was made. Another fantastic review. Best to you and Steve and the crew for all of your hard work. Stay cool.
We'll try and thanks so much for watching! Steve
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!
Steve, don't think I didn't hear that perfect Susan Hayward!!!
What can I possibly add to the goddess Elizabeth Taylor?
OK...
No matter what tour de force role she filmed, she always had that English European Elegance underneath.
I saw her opening night in "The Little Foxes" on Broadway. Her entrance was walking down a long majestic staircase in a magically designed green couture gown wearing a glowing emerald necklace earrings combo to unison gasps from the audience who stood and gave her a loud and louder, standing ovation.
She loved every minute of its close to 5 minutes duration. She never broke personage and bathed in it.
The rest of the cast didn't know what to do!!! Some were laughing discreetly without any success!!
Steve, I prefer this format.
Thank you for all you do.
I want "I Want to Live!" from Steve next- we need to see him do Oscar-winning Susie!
@@slc2466 ABSOLUTELY!!! I hope he wears a Hayward wig!!!
I'm so glad you liked it. I'd have given anything to have seen that prioduction!
@@slc2466 " The Brooklyn Bernhardt! "
@@MrQbenDanny "I know AWALL about TOQ's in red headed wigs!"
Hey, just noticed the gray Johnny's beard. But Steve you are ageless...amazing grace!
Flatterer! LOL!
Elizabeth taylor was stunning in this movie she almost didn't look real her beauty takes your breath a way to see her in person must of been something else her and paul newman had most gorgeous eyes i miss them but i can still watch there movies . 6:15
I saw Newman once and the eys wrere stunning. The closest I got o Elizabeth was seeing her jewery and some memorabilia a few years back, Incredible collection!
Thanks you for doing this review, dear Steve. Ms. Taylor and Mr. Newman are scorching - so much chemistry, so beautiful. I hope young people are discovering this classic to see what real movie stars can do. Jack Carson died way too young.
An ex of mine loved doing Maggie the Cat imitations and used to call me "Brick" (as if I could live up to that!). RIP Ross.
If you're called that you must have the qualifications. I say, grab the compliments when you can. I had an ex who referred to me as Mrs Danvers ( Judith Anderson) in " Rebecca". Nice. LOL! Thanks for watching!
Steve, thank you. Always the best.
In no time time, Burl Ives showed he had range. First he played Big Daddy from and in Hell to a snowman six years later.
❤
He also had a great part in " The Big Country", " Desire Under The Elms" and " East Of Eden'. I loved him.
@@dwhitman3092 Thank you.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ I hope you realize I was trying to be humorous.
Steve, have you been working on your Bette? This time, you sound less like Josephine/Tony C in Some Like It Hot.
This is an amazing movie. There really isn't even a mediocre performance anywhere, even the no-necks are great no-necks.
I grew up in the desert and the high mountains. I never quite understood Williams until I wound up on the gulf coast one year. Who knew drama could be so climate-dependent.
Nothing brightens my day like a Steve Hayes review. Thank You!
Nothing brightens mine like hearing a compliment like that! Thanks so much!!! Williams took that climate and made it work in every play he wrote. The heat does things to people, brings out their hidden desires and angst. He was a master at depicting both.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ Well, you know what they say: "It's not the heat, it's the humidity".
Thank you for all the great times and here's to many more. Long may you reign.
Loving the longer reviews 💙
Thanks so much!
Love your Big Daddy!! I am crazy about anything with Jack Carson and this was the first film I saw him in where he wasn't the funny wisecracker. Great acting from everyone in this cast, and I could watch Elizabeth Taylor forever. Thank you for this mid-Summer treat!!
You're so welcome. Jack could be very vulnerable and versatile. I love him as Jame's Mason's bitter agent in "A Star Is Born" with Judy Garland. He was just great!
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ ... Was great in Mildred Pierce also. He and Eve Arden were onto that brat all along.
Taylor has never been more beautiful.
Agreed.
I don't think so either!
@@Buckboy2024 Indeed!
She was 26, I think. So, absolutely agree!!! ❤
She was gorgeous in this, but I’d vote for A Place In the Sun as the pinnacle of her film beauty.
Hi Steve. The Treat Williams/Ann-Margret TV movie was actually a version "A Streetcar Named Desire". I only bring it up because Williams died this past year and it's work worth seeing. Thanks again for a great rundown of a classic film. It's odd, even swept clean of homosexual references, I see the film and always think Brick was in love with his dead friend. And that's without ever seeing the play. It seems to be the only conclusion as to why he's always drunk and on the rocks with Maggie. The innuendo - intentional or not -- is very much there.
Duly noted! I loved Treat Williams.
Just love your movie reviews Steve and this one was brilliant . Taylor and Newman are excellent but the outstanding performance goes to Burl Ives .
He was brilliant in both this and The Big Country and delighted he got an Oscar for one of them .
Yes, I love him in Big Country too
I was too!
@@Dinki-Di And " East Of Eden" a bit earlier.
What the heck do ya mean? Now don't tell me you didn't catch a little William H. Macy in his Jack Carson impression at 00:05:05 🤪
Steve, wonderful review! I love this movie...it just typifies all those smoldering southern emotions. Not to mention all the wonderful actors. Plus, Steve, I do love your longer reviews. I know they take a lot of work and effort, but I do love listening to your wonderful observations. I hope you're having a fabulous and profitable summer. ❤ Thanks for doing these.
My great pleasure. Thank you for watching!!!
Every time I watch your reviews I can’t wait to watch the film again. Film producers would be wise to commission you to review their films. Great advertising!
Mission accomplished! Our hope has always been that it leads people back to watching or re- watching these amazing works of art. Makes my day!
Mr. Burl Ives...the wonderful snowman from Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer...SILVER AND GOLD...SILVER AND GOLD!!! 😊♥️✊🏾🙏🏾
Lies and mendacitry! Lies and mendacity! LOL!
Another great review of another great movie. Thanks, Steve!
Thank you for watching!
I wonder if Montgomery Clift would have played Brick (if not for that car crash)? Such a shame; that handsome man.
This film is always a fun watch; everyone gets scenery to chew on, and Liz in that white dress! What an eyeful.
It's always a pleasure to watch TOQATM, all the best! Have something tall and cool to drink, and watch out for them no-neck monsters! 😎
Monty was so beautiful.
I had my own family no-neck monsters...I've even dated a few occasionally.... LOL..I don't think Monty would have been right, he'd been through the horrible crash that smashed up his face and confidence ,was heavily into painkillers and his focus was all over the place. The thing that make's Paul so great, is his masculine self assuredness until the liquor catches up with him and he's forced to show his anguished vulnerability. Monty wore his vulnerability on his sleeve...incidentally, I love them both. Thanks for watching! Steve
This is one of the movies that really opened young me's eyes up to the complexities and struggles of homosexuality and helped me appreciate the frustration they go through trying to "fit" into a hetero world. Steve is spot on in his appreciation of these fantastic performances, but what brings me back here time and again is Mr. Hayes' ebullience and joy in sharing this material, plus the priceless behind-the-scenes stories he shares. He is just one of the reasons life is so sweet sometimes.
Oh my gosh! Thank you so very much!
Oh please don't start talkin purdy to him. He'll get all shaky from horn to hoof !
FINALLY! I’ve waited patiently for your fabulous review of one of my very favorite films of my all-time film queen Elizabeth❤️. EVERYONE chews the scenery up in this scorcher of a summer movie! With a top-drawer first rate cast like this one, you just know it’s going to be such fun to wallow in all this Southern-fried drama for two hours! Thanks again for a great review! You and Johnny have a great summer 😊
You too and thank you for letting us know how much you liked it! Much appreciated!
A Fantastic episode Gentleman ❤ I can't tell you how much I look forward to these i even started rewatching the older ones 😊they're fabulous 🩷
Hooray! I hope you subscribe so I can bring you a new episode every month! Happy Summer!
LOVE you both! Always enjoy your videos.
Many thnaks.
I heard Richard Burton
would never watch this movie because Liz and Paul were so gorgeous. Yet he was the love of her life.
She was the love of her life.
@@65wiseman Mike Todd was the love of her life.
Well, he was good looking, but he wasn't Paul Newman. That sexual chemestrt rips through the screen like a wild fire.
@@65wiseman Can't say I blame her.
@@thehair1474 She loved 'em both.
Steve-
I know you taped this in the Summer, but as I watch this in January, it’s 31 degrees here in Atlanta. Your great intelligence and humor warm up any room, so thank you!
Thank you for watching and ,if it's any consolation, it's bone chilling in New York!
Hello Steve! This was so well said (by you) and I can't add anything more. Thanks for high-lighting the wonderful Jack Carson and the fine actor/singer Burl Ives. Most of us now, "old kids," were first introduced to Mr. Ives when he was featured in the classic Christmas cartoon, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," which still remains a very popular holiday favorite. It was initially shown in 1964, and if you were born in some old year, say 1956 (as I was) then your eight year old eyes shone with wonder and excitement.
Actiually, I was eleven and watched it faithfully every Christmas as well as my other holiday favorite; " Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol". I own both on DVD and watch them every year. Thanks for watching! Steve
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ Hello Steve, thank you for the nice reply! I also loved the voice of Jim Backus in that wonderful animated holiday special, "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol." (Wow, there were several "well-known voices," in that gem, which a good many folks out here would immediately recognize). Steve, have you ever considered doing a review of one (or both) of these Christmas classics? I am sure that there are countless stories/facts you might uncover, and we would all learn something fun and interesting in the process. Well, it's just my "two-cents." (With inflation, it's now a buck-and-a half! 😁) Cheers to you and Johnny!
Always a delight to see your posts...please stay well and happy.
You too and thanks so much for watching!
One of your very best reviews, Steve - and that's saying a lot! Your insight into the essence of the play, the differences between Brooks and Kazan, Williams's opinions on the film versions, details of the supporting cast - well, everything. I'm addicted to your reviews! Humor, insight, background. Thank you so much!
My pleasure! You made my day! I hope you subscribe, so I can visit you with a new oner each month! have a lovely summer and thanks so much for watching! Steve
It always makes my day when Steve uploads a video. Thank you so much Steve, and what a fabulous film you chose!
My pleasure. Thanks for watching!
this is one of my favourite films, so many times I looked for your review. Thank you. Elizabeth Taylor should have won the Oscar for Cat but she was a "bad girl" with the Eddie Fisher affair.
Well, as Gregory Peck once said; " There's no accounting for it. Sometimes it's just your turn." This particular time, it wasn't.
Thanks Steve! Always been a huge Jack Carson fan! So very underrated.
Wasn't he? He never gave a bad performance. And so sexy!
Right after this the Liz, Debbie, Eddie scandal started, btw
The scene with Newman and Ives in the basement (which of course is not in the play) is a tour de force for both actors. An amazing and unforgettable scene.
Both are at the top of their game in that scene.
Oh Boy! What an appropriate movie for these summer days! Love to Steve, Johnny, and TOQ crew! ❤
So glad you do. I think it's perfect summer fare.
I always thought this would play best in an outside theatre on a hot summer night with a water & fan system spraying misty water over the audience out from the stage sides. ⚙
I could watch it again and again . Love the characters.
Perfectly cast1
Steve we need a one Man Show with all your wonderful stories liem the one that you ended this post with. Something like Eileen Stritch.
Well, as a matter of fact, I do that periodically. I'll be performing another one of my shows in October at Pangea nightclub in New York.
A most excellent review! I’m always looking forward to the next one.
Thank you very much!
Another brilliant, fascinating, enriching, fun review❣ Thanks Steve. Hugs and Love from Ginny in San Diego, California❣
Hugs right back at ya! Thanks so much!
I'm 68, and I grew up in the sixties watching movies from the fifties on TV. So often I was baffled by what the adults were doing, and why, and this movie is a great example. Even watching it in my late teens, I was asking myself if they were really implying that Paul Newman's character was gay, or was he just punishing his wife for cheating on him. Gigi was another one that confused me. Beneath the eye candy of the period artifice, I had no idea what everyone was trying to do to Gigi, and wondered why it was such a relief for Louis Jourdan to propose to her. These are just two examples of how sexuality was kind of blurred in those days, and how it played out in the mind of a kid in the suburbs watching this stuff. Great fun, thanks!
I grew up at the same time and was equally confused by many of the things I saw, or percieved I saw, in the films on " NBC Saiturday Night At The Movies. However, I noticed, even then, how much more liberal things became as we moved further into the 1960's, so by the time I saw "Women In ,Love' in 1970 with Olver Reed and Alan Bates wrestling nude in front of the fireplace, I was blown away. as well as delighted! It was a marvelous time to be young and watching movies and I think it produced the youthful love and enthusiasm I have for them to this day. Thanks for watching! Steve
Oooohhhhh, Liz Taylor in that slip, Paul Newman........in anything; two stunningly beautiful people. I LOVED this movie. Everyone is in top form in it (imo) and it can have you heartbroken at one minute and ready to knock someones block off the next. Brilliant movie. God, to look like that in a petticoat😮❤❤❤ Thanks Steve xx
I never did...wrong petty coat, I guess! LOL! Thanks for watching!
LOL - "Set to play Mae". How does this man not have his own show and a million subscribers?
How the hell do you cut Mae and Gopher out of "Cat?" Glad Mildred gave that director hell!
I'll give you an hour to cut that out! BIG HUGS!
@@slc2466 She did! Blistering!
I look forward to your reviews even when I am not crazy about the movie 😊 You have introduced a few i hadn't seen and fell in love with like 'A letter to 3 wives'.
LOVE A Letter to 3 Wives. Love love love. Just give me Linda Darnell, Connie Gilchrist, Thelma Ritter, Florence Bates, Both Douglas's, Ann Sothern and I'm happy. Deeply.
I love that one too!
@@danielstanwyck2812 " What I got, ya don't need beads." LOVE LINDA & THELMA!!!!
The TV version with Natallie Wood as Maggie and her husband Robert Wagner as Brick and Sir Laurence Olivier was very. good and adhered to Tennesee Williams' play.👍
Sir Laurence Olivier played Big Daddy.
And Maureen Stapleton as Big Mama!
I remember reading how taken aback Olivier was at Wood's beauty when he first saw her enter.
OMG, I didn’t know MIke Todd had died at the start of the shoot. I always thought Elizabeth was at her most beautiful in this movie. She was amazing in this film.
I totally agree.
She was supposed to go on that trip.... on the doomed plane. 😮
She didn't go because she was sick.
I watched this film for the first time as a kid, wondering when the cat would show up. 😂
Yup....I didn't undertsand it, and didn't care as long as Paul was shirtless.
I always enjoy hearing and seeing you create the essence of each movie you select. The excitement you present is always fun and inspiring. I been a fan “ Let’s Go To The Movies “ when you review the movies I remember actually how I saw them at the theater and television. Thank you.
My pleasure and thank you so much fro watching! You made my day!
When I first moved to NYC, on of my boyfriend's elderly friends could never remember my name, but he said my eyes reminded him of Paul Newman's so he called me Paul. Even though that relationship is long over, I recently saw one of his friends on the street, we chatted, and he called me "Paul."
Hilarious! IBack in the '80's, I worked in a restaurant on Grove Street in the Village where there were two waiters both named Steve. The other one had been there longer, so I had to change my name to avoid confusion and every so often I'll run into someone who calls me " NICK"! So butch! LOL!
This film has held up well over the years. A great choice for a hot summer. Burl ives had so much more to his character as Big Daddy compared to Rufus in The Big Country, who was just a standard villain. I had never thought about them being in the same year, so thanks for bringing that up. Maybe it was studio politics.
I always wonder if Big Daddy was considered a lead role, as it does seem odd Ives got the nod for "Country" over "Cat."
Yes...I never figured out why they alowed Ives to be nominated for " The Big Country" over " Cat"? But I'm sure that his being in showey roles in two mega box office hits asdured him the Oscar...besides his being incredbly talentd of course .
@@slc2466 Could very well be.
Perhaps.
@@slc2466 That too.
I miss you Steve ! Did not see you for a while!
This is one of my favorite movies !
Love Paul and Lisa! Fire
So glad you saw it! Hooray!
I'm more in Awe of Taylor as a person than an actress. Exception, Virginia Wolf .
The right exception.
Thank you for another wonderful review, I love your impersonations! I don't know if it's true but I heard that Tab Hunter was the first choice to play Brick, in this interview he also said that he was offered Sweet Bird of Youth and Summer and Smoke, but that he turned them all down and those were the biggest regrets he had!
They're pretty bog regrets. Oh, boy....Happy Summer and thanks for watching! Steve
I saw a revival in London in 2000s with Ned Beatty as Big Daddy, Brendan Fraser as Brick and an amazing Australian actress as Maggie. It was great.
That must have been very interesting. Both fantastic actors too.
I would have LOVED to see Brendan Fraser as Brick. Such a hottie back then.
Loved this review Steve. I noticed there was no mention of the 70's TV version with Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner and Sir Laurence Olivier. I thought Wood was excelent as Maggie and Olivier was more powerful and malevolent than Ives. This film and "The Long Hot Summer" are always good recommendations for a steamy summer and I hope you review that latter pot boiler soon. ❤
Hot Spell with Shirley Booth is another great one to enjoy in the sweltering summer heat!
I already reviwed " The Long Hot Summer", check my RUclips channel and you'll find the episode. Thanks for watching! Steve
@@Nagennif1011 Indeed! Shirley Booth and Eileen Heckart are terrific!
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ ... I liked the 80's TV version with Don Johnson and an alarmingly beautiful Judith Ivey.
What's w/ the whistling when you say "Judith Anderson"?
I've seen this, but for some reason, it's the version w/ Jessica Lange that sticks with me: "A Chaaaaald Is Comin'!" 😄
Anderson had a slight whitsling "S", that I tend to exaggerate, for comic effect. I liked the Lang and Jones version as well. With marvelous Kim Stanley as " Big Mama".
So nice to see you do a long video. The shorts are the best period but it's nice to have more time with you
How nice of you to say so. mny thanks.
Such heart palpitations I get watching Liz in this film. As for Newman, my palpitations pulse a wee bit lower than my heart. OMG, what a hunk of man!
You got that right! In both loactions! LOL! Thanks for watching! Steve
What an incredible review by STEVE HAYES. I'm so glad your channel popped up on my screen. I'm a new devoted fan. I love how you didn't give up the end of the movie before it was time but that you went through the scenes in a slowly revealing way. This movie happens to be one of my absolute favorites. I cannot find a scintilla of problem with it - everything from the plantation living, the mindblowing acting, the casting, it's all too much to absorb in one sitting. So I've seen it so many times I'm on my second DVD copy. Thank you for your wonderful channel.
Thank you so much for your wonderful comments. I hope you subscribe, so I can bring you a new classic every month. Welcome aboard!
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ Yes, I am a proud subscriber.
Wow...thanks Steve I enjoyed every minute of your review. Tennessee Williams - his plays and short stories are a gift to us. As you noted so many of his written work is poetry. I knew some of the back story on this film (what a cast) and now know more...really appreciated. I really appreciate much of the literature and plays to come from the American southeast. By the way, on several plane trips, I watched a multi episode documentary on the films of Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward - both very remarkable, smart and very talented performers...PS finally I got in the mail the film "Female on the Beach"...I've hosted dinners with a series of buds and after dinner we watch Joan contending with the hot beachcomber...thank you for introducing me to that (dare we call that "tawdry") film...cheers my friend!!
Steve reviewed "Female on the Beach" and it's a hoot. Love that movie, Crawford in her crinolines and high heels walking the sand!
hey Michael, Hooray! No better way to get through the long hot summer than a touch of Tennessee Williams and a " Female On The Beach"! I'm so glad you and the Buds are enjoying it! Love those ankle strap heels in the sand! Happy August and thanks so much for the lovely compliments and for watching! best; Steve
You are so entertaining! Please make more videos!
I'll keep making 'em if you keep watching 'em!
Ah. Steve! I finally saw this movie about ten years ago and changed my mind about Elozabeth Taylor. I saw National Velvet, and she was amazing! But I realized just how wonderfully subtle she could be in that screen door scene ("just stayin on it, I guess"). She has this great slow burn when she answers his question, and then she blows him a kiss! I'm smiling because my late mother said the sheriff in her little Southern town and his brood of children looked just like the "no neck monsters!" She had great stories about the impact of the Debbie Eddie Liz scandal, and still didn't like Liz but hated Eddie even more, although she'd once been a fan. I would tease her because she was born about a month after Liz and exactly two days before Debbie Reynolds, on Warren Beatty's soon to be birthday! She didn't like Debbie or Warren, either! She thought Joanne Woodward was better than all of them! Just a little chuckle for you, Steve.
I never understood Woodward 's appeal. Good actor, but she obviously had more to her than I could see. More power to you Joanne.
@@peterd.9522 Joanne Woodward could play anything well -- and did!
Mothers do have their opinions. My mother was scandalized when she saw ' Cleoptra" with a group of her girlfriends. The next morning over breakfast I asked what she thought of the movie and Liz. " It was way too long and I think it's terrible the way they allowed everything on her to just hand out!" Later on in the '60's when the "topless" look was in style there was no living with her! I can't imagine what she'd say today...yes I can...nevermind! LOL!
@@peterd.9522 It wan't easy for her. She was a solid actress, but after the Oscar and all that , they tried to push her as a sexy vamp of sorts. She never had the smoldering sex appeal before the camera that came so nauturally to her husband. She gave some really good performances, but she wasn't always easyu to cast and had to fight for good parts.
I read the play in High School and hated the ending, but I love the movie. And who's more beautiful, Liz or Paul?
Burl.
Have enjoyed your reviews for a long time. Loved the Burl Ives impression in this one & Big Daddy's lines about mendacity have always been my favorite use of that word. Glad you included that word in your interpretation.
Ya gotta' do what ya gottra' do! LOL! Thanks!
Once again from Australia absolutely LOVE you TOQATM, you 2 are the BEST xx
Thanks so much and we're thrilled to have a fan in Austrailia! Hooray!
Love how you explore the context of many pertinent aspects from script, to stage, to film and more. I'd love to know which version(s) you think (that are on film or tape) are worth seeing.
Some films taken from plays that I think are better than their source materials are; " Picnic", " Seperate Tables", The Chalk Garden", "A Streetcar Named Desire", Whos' Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" and " Suddenly, Last Summer" earlier plays that I think were better movies are: " Stage Door" ( '37) & " The Women" ( '39) & " The Philadelphia Story" )
('40").
Bravo! Remarkable review - astute, fun and educational and entertaining! So enjoy your video/reviews. Always makes me smile.
Hooray ! Mission accomplished!
Excellent review. One small note: Treat Williams and Ann-Margret did Streetcar on TV, not Cat. There was another TV Cat with Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner with Laurence Olivier as Big Daddy and Maureen Stapleton as Big Mama.
Noted.
As always, fabulous review my friend! It’s giving me a different perspective on this movie and I plan to see it again. I will say sometimes the southern accents leave me a bit cold but I shall Marshall on with this!
Do so, for my sake. LOL!
ANOTHER GREAT REVIEW. I was wondering about the cruise. Is it still on. Are there still tickets available?
I think so.
I love your reviews. You have filled me in on all the details I missed when I saw this movie in my 20s. Now 67 yrs old. Have you reviewed Butterfield 8?
Nope. She loathed it.
So do we need to see Steve play Big Daddy? That little slip into the character was awesome!
Well, believe it or not, I've had some luck over the years being a " Big Daddy"... so.... LOL!
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ I do declare
the way you narrate and tell stories is so funny
Thanks so much!
Maggie the CAT! Love Elizabeth Taylor!!!!!!!!!!!!!
💙👍🤗!😉💙
Don'tcha?
Would love your take on The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
Yes, and a comparison between the Vivien Leigh and the tv version with Helen Mirren. Both good. And Leigh only made one more film, Ship of Fools.
@@jimc6054 I love the Leigh version.
It's on my "To Do" list.
I have a strange story about this movie. Before Xmas 2008, I was out and about doing holiday errands. I stopped for a bite, and heard the usual loop of Xmas music that I usually blank out. Then I heard Holly Jolly Xmas by Burl Ives. All of a sudden I said out loud, Big Daddy! Then, it was, why did I say that? It's a good movie, but I haven't seen or thought of it in years! Besides, that song never did that to me before. When I got home, I turned on Turner Classic to see what was playing. Yep, it was CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. It had to be at least 10 years since I last saw it. Thanks for your great review. It was very interesting to hear about all the stage productions. I have to ask you if you attended Syracuse University drama department?
I did two years at Onondaga Community College, then transferred and graduated from SUNY Oneonta.
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ for some reason I thought you might have been in the area. I graduated from Syracuse and loved the area, except for those brutal winters!
Would have been great if they cast Robert Redford as Skipper.
I'll say.
One of my all time favorite movies, Paul and Elizabeth together: smoking HOT!
Oh, absolutely.
Steve, you are witty, intelligent and charming. And knowledgeable!
Like one of your favorites once sang, “Who could ask for anything more”?!
Awwww, thank you so much!
@@STEVEHAYESTOQ
Be well and happy!
I remember discovering this one when i was a teen and feelings so many things. hahaha Just wonderful and God, were they gorgeous and sexy? Another fantastic video! Thank you.
You're so welcome. Thanks for watching!
Steve I look so forward to your reviews. This is a great choice for a steamy, sweltering summer! The thing that struck me about this film the first time
I saw it (as a kid) was everyone is schvitzing profusely throughout the entire movie! I wonder if that was deliberate or it was just so damn hot when
they were filming. By the way I love your impression of Judith Anderson with the whistling dentures!
The set was hot, so the sweat came naturally. Thanks!
Thanks for this. Another great Tennessee Wiliams. Love this film.
I love it too.
I noticed COAHTR is streaming on one of my services...now I've got to watch it...again. Thanks Steve! BTW, I think you'd kill it as Big Daddy in a revival.
I'm flattered you think so. Thanks! Steve
To hell with that. I still wanna see him play Mae.
Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor-beautiful inside and out. Love this movie and your channel 🌈
Oh, thank you so much! I love it too. They're both SO beautiful! The EYES have it!
Thanks for your reviews. Would love to see you review Reflections in a Golden Eye.
I'll think it over. Thanks for the suggestion. .
Intense film and great review Steve!👍👍
Many thanks!
Thank you dear Steve💙
You're so very welcome.
I always like your videos. We seem to like the same movies. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is one of my all-time favorites; I've seen it at least a dozen times. The acting is outstanding. I do agree that the removal of Skipper's homosexuality made the movie confusing. It just was not clear why Skipper would have killed himself.
Look where we've come since that time, where now a movie like Brokeback Mountain can be made. That is one movie that I cannot watch a second time, because it was so good and so crushingly sad.
Well, thank God we've come so far! Love is love!
Please review Hud. It's my number one favorite Paul Newman movie ❤
It's on my "To Do" list!
Dear Steve, It has been too hot to breathe in London but suddenly it's cooler and there's torrential rain so I can write to thank you for your review of this fascinating film. I saw it first when I was at school and was genuinely confused by some of the relationships - Elizabeth Taylor is so unbelievably lovely that a paraplegic wouldn't be able to keep away from her, and we're supposed to believe Paul Newman isn't interested and would rather cling to his crutch? (Perhaps there should be an "o" in that word!!) Like one of your other readers, I've never recognised Judith Anderson as Big Mama, and how in Heaven's name Burl Ives won the Oscar for another film and not this is beyond me. Poor Gooper is married to a woman with a face like a shovel, Heaven help him, and the film suffers from the removal of what should clearly be at the heart of the sexual problems between Maggie and Brick. I saw a documentary made long after in which Elizabeth Taylor spoke about her way of working, which was to save everything for the shot itself, so that in this film Paul Newman said to her when she delivered a line with such meaning "I wasn't ready for that". Mike Todd's death was an absolute tragedy for her, not only because he completely adored her but because he left her with huge debts (this was typical - I read Joan Blondell's autobiography; she'd been his previous wife). I don't think for one moment she would have got involved with or married Eddie Fisher if Mike Todd had lived, and she wouldn't have had to film "Butterfield 8", which she had to do to earn money. It's a miracle that Elizabeth Taylor survived some of the real-life dramas she went through. Very best wishes, Alida
It is indeed. there is a new documentary out cxalled " Elizaebteh : The Lost Tapes", which I saw at the Tirbeca Film fest here in New York back in June. She planned to wriite an autibiography and so, with the help of a film mkaer who's name escapes me, recordered these tapes around the time of the V.I.P.'s. Thedoc itself is really nothing new, except you get to sit witha conversational Elizabeth as if you were across the table having drinks at trwiglight and she's funny, frank and fabulous. I think Mike was the one she really loved. He was a wheeler /dealer fro way back and charm the fangs from a cobra. he called her up the morning after her divorce became final from poor Michael Wilding, who she admits she henpecked to death, and tokd her he was taking her out to mlunch. he then badgered her for three hours over why she absolutely had to marry him and she really had no choice in the matter. She tells the story and concludes it by saying; And you know, but the time lunch was over he'd managed to throughly convince me. I couldn't think of a single reason why I shouldn't marry him. And, of course, we did.'" I loved her. When she had a good director who believed in her and supported her as an artist, she could do marvelous things. I loved her in this, " Suddenly, Last Summer" and " Whos's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" Simply spectacular. As for Burl Ives and the Oscars, the fact that he wa in two big . hit movie in one year automatically guarabnteeted hsi winningm though why they diidn't give it to him for " Big daddy", is beyond me...but then, the Oscars often are. Why give the Oscar to the following over the follwoing; Donna Reed over Thelma Ritter? Grace Kelly over Judy Garland? Jose Ferrar over William Holden? Paul Lukas over Humphrey Bogart? Ronald Coleman over Monty Clift? Now for the two worst....Art Carney over Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino and Robert Donat over Charles Laughton who wasn't even nominated for " The Hunchback Of Notre Dame"! Don't get me started...too late, I already did.... LOL! Stay cool, lovely to hear from you, as always and thank you for putting up with my ravings! Best; Steve
I saw this movie on tv as teenager several times and I loved it. Since I live in Germany and on tv all foreign- language movies were - and are - dubbed into German, I have not heard Elisabeth Taylor doing the southern accent. And of course it is better in original, in english. Thank you very much and best regards!
I'm thrilled to have a viewer in Germany!!!!! Thank you SO much for watching!!!! You made my day!