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The Night of the Iguana [VHS]
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Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s): Richard Burton Ava Gardner Deborah Kerr Sue Lyon Skip Ward Creators: Emilio Fernández (Producer) Gabriel Figueroa (Cinematographer) John Huston (Writer) Ray Stark (Producer) Sandy Whitelaw (Producer) Anthony Veiller (Writer) Tennessee Williams (Writer) Director(s): John Huston
Recording label: MGM (Warner) EAN: 9786301977760Binding: VHS TapeISBN: 6301977769Format: Black & White, NTSC, Release Date: 1994-06-30Universal product code (UPC): 027616008039Number of discs: 1Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)Amazon.com The Night of the Iguana may be Richard Burton's finest hour on the screen: beautifully cast as an anguished, defrocked reverend, doomed to his own purgatory in Mexico as tour guide to a group of nattering biddies. (The expression on his face as the ladies warble "Happy Days Are Here Again" on the tour bus is worth a Shakespearian monologue.) John Huston's clean, black-comic adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play is a forceful snapshot of a man down to his last chance, and the superb black-and-white location photography by Gabriel Figueroa captures the end-of-the-world vibe. The women who tempt and taunt the reverend are Ava Gardner (with her maraca-shaking beach boys), Deborah Kerr, and Sue Lyon. The movie--and its backstage publicity, with Burton and Liz Taylor carrying on their Cleopatra affair--put Puerto Vallarta on the map, but it deserves notice for Burton's gutsy acting and Huston's characteristic sympathy for life's losers. --Robert Horton
Running time: 125 minutesLanguage: English (Unknown) Language: English (Original Language) Language: Spanish (Original Language)
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