Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Brick (Paul Newman) and Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor) in a film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), directed by Richard Brooks.

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Brick (Paul Newman) and Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor) in a film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), directed by Richard Brooks.

Brick (Paul Newman) and Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor) in a film adaptation of Tennessee...

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