The Night of the Iguana
by John Huston
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Actor: Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Richard Burton, Skip Ward, Sue LyonDirector: John Huston
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Emilio Fern?ndez
Producer: John Huston
Writer: John Huston
Producer: Ray Stark
Producer: Sandy Whitelaw
Writer: Anthony Veiller
Writer: Tennessee Williams
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Night of the Iguana
Movie Review: Don't know what the raves are about
Summary: 2 Stars
It is an interesting experiment in story telling in its time as the cast sweats it out along the mexican backroads. However, the dialogue is too broken and confusing many times, there's too much left unsaid in many parts. I didn't feel sympathy or a connection to any of the characters, and the chemistry between them is lacking or stereotyped. I found Ava Gardner hugely annoying with her maraca boys. The characters are largely too flighty and emotional, and worst of all the whole iguana motiff is finally trite and simple. Thumbs down.
Summary of The Night of the Iguana
In the sleepy village of Puerto Vallarta, the defrocked Reverend T. Laurence Shannon works as a tour guide. While leading a group of school teachers, he attracts the attention of their junior member Charlotte Goodall. To save money, he takes the group to a rundown hotel owned by his friend, Maxine Faulk. Once there, his interest shifts to Hannah Jelkes, a poor artist. But in the end it may be Maxine whom he stays on with.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
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