Showing posts with label Year: 1958. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year: 1958. Show all posts

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)


Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman are both superb in this adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. As you’d expect, there’s real dynamism in the script and these exceptional lead actors make the most of it.

Burl Ives plays “Big Daddy”, the father who never showed Brick enough love.

It’s moving and ultimately uplifting, with a strong thread of comedy and satire running through it as the various family relationships are examined and explored.

Vertigo (1958)


Alfred Hitchcock classic. There’s a theme of how hard life is for women when men hold all the power. Worth seeing if only for the lovely San Francisco locations with no one in them. When are cities ever that empty? Also, Kim Novak and James Stewart are spectacular in the lead roles.