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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
August 23, 2013  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Elizabeth Taylor is today’s TCM star of the day, and while plenty of other Taylor films fill the day and late-night hours, this 1958 film version of the Tennessee Williams play is the one that is reserved for the start of prime time. Paul Newman plays Brick, Burl Ives plays his imposing Big Daddy, and Taylor stands both between and away from them both, as Maggie the Cat, as sultry and twisted a heroine as any in Williams’ Broadway arsenal.

 
 
 
 
 
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