Top billed cast

1. 

   Paul Newman

   Brick

2. 

   Elizabeth Taylor

   Maggie

3. 

   Burl Ives

   Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt

4. 

   Judith Anderson

   Big Momma

5. 

   Jack Carson

   Gooper

6. 

   Madeleine Sherwood

   Mae

7. 

   Vaughn Taylor

   Deacon Davis

8. 

   Larry Gates

   Dr. Baugh

9. 

   Brian Corcoran

   Boy

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-09-29

Yikes, but there's a lot of smouldering going on here... "Brick" (Paul Newman) is the former all-American boy type who has got himself injured and is married to "Maggie" (Elizabeth Taylor) with whom he has a pretty turbulent relationship based on mistrust. He is the son of the wealthy and tyrannical "Big Daddy" (Burl Ives) who is in turn married to the rather sheepish "Ida" (Judith Anderson) and the brother to the ostensibly insipid lawyer "Gooper" (Jack Carson) who is married to the rather selfish "Mae" (Madeleine Sherwood). So far, nobody much likes or trusts anyone, there's not enough love ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$3,000,000.00

Revenue
$17,570,324.00

Keywords

• dying and death
• depression
• individual
• suicide
• jealousy
• husband wife relationship
• southern usa
• mississippi river
• plantation
• patriarch
• based on play or musical
• inheritance
• sibling rivalry
• brother against brother
• cynical
• alcoholic
• dying father
• family conflict
• angry
• father son conflict
• southern gothic
• anxious
• daughter–in–law father–in–law relationship
• star athlete
• cotton plantation
• mississippi
• authoritarian
• condescending