Review of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) by Crosby Day for Time Out — 24 May 1962
In his four earlier films, Williams seemed to need a warmup of two backward steps before he could take one step forward, but at least the movement was visible and real. This time, Adapter-Director Richard Brooks has been able to put very little motion in his motion picture.
His Cat is a formaldehyded tabby that sits static while layer after layer of its skin is peeled off, life after life of its nine lives unsentimentally destroyed. But in Williams, Brooks has a rare playwright who can make his static electric, and a blinkered grope toward the past as suspenseful as a headlong crash into the future.
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This review of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) was written by Crosby Day and published by Time Out on 24 May 1962.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof has generally received very positive reviews.
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