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“You need a lot of crutches, don’t you? Clicks? Whiskey? What else do you need? Skipper? He was a crutch for you, too, wasn’t he?”

Tennessee Williams was reportedly unhappy with the screenplay, which removed almost all of the homosexual themes and revised the third act section to include a lengthy scene of reconciliation between Brick and Big Daddy. Paul Newman, the film’s star, had also stated his disappointment with the adaptation. The Hays Code limited Brick’s portrayal of sexual desire for Skipper, and diminished the original play’s critique of homophobia and sexism. Williams so disliked the toned-down film adaptation of his play that he told people waiting in line to see the movie, “This movie will set the industry back 50 years. Go home!”

Paul Newman as Brick Pollitt
inCat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) dir. Richard Brooks