The CCC Movie Group is open to all! Watch the movie(s) on your own, then join the group on Zoom at 7:00 pm on “Movie Mondays” to discuss.  Please contact Lynn Horton for the Zoom link, if you have questions, or if you have difficulty accessing the movie!

Monday, 10/14 – “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958)

Directed by Richard Brooks and based on the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, the film stars Elizabeth Taylor as Margaret “Maggie the Cat” Pollitt, Paul Newman as “Brick” Pollitt, Burl Ives as Harvey “Big Daddy” Pollitt, Jack Carson as Cooper “Gooper” Pollitt, Judith Anderson as Ida “Big Mama” Pollitt, Madeleine Sherwood as Mae Flynn “Sister Woman” Pollitt, Larry Gates as Dr. Baugh, and Vaughn Taylor as Deacon Davis. It is an adaptation of Williams’s classic drama set in the plantations of the American Deep South, where hypocrisy, greed, and secret passions threaten to tear apart a dysfunctional family as they fight over a dying patriarch’s millions. The phrase “cat on a hot tin roof” is a Southernism that describes someone who is on edge, anxious, or unable to sit still.