Jay42
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I watched Cat on a Hot Tin Roof recently on TV and I fully agree. Re: the spoilerI think the biggest travesty of adapting his plays from stage to screen was with Cat on the Hot Tin Roof. The film version had Elizabeth Taylor in what may be her "best" role or at least the one with one of her most beautiful and iconic looks. And most of the actors are first-rate (well, I thought the actress playing the competing sister-in-law played her way too on-the-nose but I wonder if that was the film director's choice and not the actress' choice). However, the studio censoring a very integral and sort of the only reason why this play exists totally ruined the whole thing. Furthermore, they added all these kind of cheesy scenes to make the overall material softer and to supportthe "happy" ending between Brick and Maggie.
That one was so bad that Tennessee Williams himself protested the movie and even stood outside theaters that were playing it to tell them not to watch it.
I could see what was going to happen a mile away because of when the movie was made and I was still annoyed.
but that ending just kills it.