Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958) **

With all references to homosexuality removed from the film adaptation, it doesn't make much sense, as Bosley Crowther amusingly commented upon in his 1958 New York Times review: Mr. Williams' original stage play has been altered considerably, especially in offering explanation of why the son is as he is. Now, a complicated business of hero-worship has been put by Mr. Brooks and James Poe in place of a strong suggestion of homosexuality in the play. No wonder the baffled father, in trying to find out what gives, roars with indignation: "Something's missing here!".