Details

Release year: 1958

Storyline

Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminally ill father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

Top credits

Directors

Richard Brooks

Writers

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor — Maggie Pollitt
Paul Newman — Brick Pollitt
Burl Ives — Big Daddy Pollitt
Jack Carson — Gooper Pollitt

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Awards

0 wins & 6 nominations

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Did you know

• Despite being really affected by her husband Mike Todd's death, Elizabeth Taylor resumed her job in a very professional way, without any delay on the set. Everyone was astonished by her determination.

• This movie was originally to be filmed in black-and-white, as was the standard practice with artistic movies in the 1950s. (Virtually all movie adaptations of the plays of Tennessee Williams had been in black-and-white up to that time.) However, once Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor were cast in the leads, writer and director Richard Brooks insisted on shooting in color, in deference to the public's well-known enthusiasm for Taylor's violet and Newman's strikingly blue eyes.

• Burl Ives was only one year older than Jack Carson, who played his eldest son, and sixteen years older than Paul Newman, who played his youngest.