Ava Gardner, Cyril Delevanti, Deborah Kerr
An ex-minister works as a tour guide in a Mexican coastal town, falls into some romantic interludes with a group of schoolteachers, and then meets a beautiful artist at a run-down hotel where the prop...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 2, 2006
Stats: 236 reviews
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October 22, 2009
I loved this movie. It has this clammy, sweltering feel to it. Ava Gardner was beautiful in her role as the nervous and passionate Maxine. Richard Burton was just as entertaining as in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
The movie is based on a play by Tennessee Williams, and perhap...( read more) -
September 1, 2009
One thing that fascinates me about John Huston's body of work is the way he sympathizes with his characters, usually men drowned by sorrow and guilt whose dreams blew up on their faces and now only long for self destruction as the only way out.
Yet, this great film is somewhat l...( read more) -
July 21, 2009
It is possible to watch a film on a wide range of emotional and intellectual levels. One can pay attention only to the visuals, only to the minute trivia related to actors and actresses, to the most obvious displays of physical action, to appeals to one's sympathies, or to the un...( read more)
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December 7, 2007
Maybe I wasn't in the mood for this one but it was less than what I expected. Just okay.
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October 31, 2006
Burton is fantastic, Gardener is a great burn-out and Sue Lyon rehashes her Lolita persona. But somehow I like it...
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November 19, 2009
Ava Gardner is so good!!!
I would like to see the remake of this.
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August 2, 2009
Unfortunate changes from the play, but not as bad as CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Richard Burton is the most criminally misused actor in Hollywood history: this and WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (both, significantly, based on great plays) might be the only two really good movies that...( read more)
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July 24, 2009
It took me WAY too long to see it, but now I finally have - it makes me realize I need to see more of Richard Burton urgently, it has Ava Gardner playing against type and rocking at it in every single way, Deborah Kerr is surprisingly memorable and Sue Lyon is such a whore, I lov...( read more)
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February 2, 2009
Definitely one of my favorite classics,and my Tenneesee Williams fave,Ava Gardner is unbelievably hot and they make a great couple with Richard Burton who is btw fantastic.
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