Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - (Original Trailer)

A dying plantation owner tries to help his alcoholic son solve his problems in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) -- (Movie Clip) High Hurdles

Opening credits, and former Mississippi high school football star Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) hears voices as he attempts a drunken run at the high hurdles in the opening scene from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958, from the Tennessee Williams play.

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) -- (Movie Clip) We Occupy the Same Cage

The drunk and injured Brick (Paul Newman) rejects his wife Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor) in director Richard Brooks' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958, from the Tennessee Williams play.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Alive!

A desperate Maggie "the cat" (Elizabeth Taylor) tries to talk to her ex-football-star husband Brick (Paul Newman) in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958, from the Tennessee Williams play.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I Don't Want Your Hand!

Father Big Daddy (Burl Ives) and son Brick (Paul Newman) clash over Brick's drinking and his wife Maggie's (Elizabeth Taylor, not seen) misdeeds in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958, from the Tennessee Williams play.