Top Billed Cast
Paul Newman
Brick
Elizabeth Taylor
Maggie
Burl Ives
Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Judith Anderson
Big Momma
Jack Carson
Gooper
Madeleine Sherwood
Mae
Vaughn Taylor
Deacon Davis
Larry Gates
Dr. Baugh
Brian Corcoran
Boy
Zelda Cleaver
Servant
Robert 'Rusty' Stevens
Sonny Pollitt
Hugh Corcoran
Buster Pollitt
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Review 1DiscussionA review by CinemaSerf
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Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Sep 29 2024
Yikes, but there's a lot of smouldering going on here... "Brick" (Paul Newman) is the former all-American boy type who has got himself injured and is married to "Maggie" (Elizabeth Taylor) with whom he has a pretty turbulent relationship based on mistrust. He is the son of the wealthy and tyrannical "Big Daddy" (Burl Ives) who is in turn married to the rather sheepish "Ida" (Judith Anderson) and the brother to the ostensibly insipid lawyer "Gooper" (Jack Carson) who is married to the rather selfish "Mae" (Madeleine Sherwood). So far, nobody much likes or trusts anyone, there's not enough love a...
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Facts
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
3000000.00
Revenue
17570324.00
Keywords
- dying and death
- depression
- individual
- suicide
- jealousy
- husband wife relationship
- southern usa
- mississippi river
- plantation
- patriarch
- based on play or musical
- inheritance
- sibling rivalry
- brother against brother
- cynical
- alcoholic
- dying father
- angry
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- father son conflict
- southern gothic
- anxious
- daughter–in–law father–in–law relationship
- star athlete
- cotton plantation
- mississippi
- authoritarian
- condescending