Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Synopsis

On a sprawling 28,000-acre Mississippi plantation estate on the 65th birthday of the dying patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt, a bitter, alcoholic former football star hobbles on crutches mourning his deceased best friend Skipper and withholding sexual intimacy from his sensual, frustrated wife Maggie 'the Cat', while scheming relatives circle the cotton fortune like vultures: 'What is the smell in this room? The smell of mendacity!' Richard Brooks and Tennessee Williams' six-time Oscar-nominated southern melodrama summit starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in career-peak performances.