I didn't know it was a Tennessee Williams play until looking it up on this site, but it's a very solid movie. I constantly say how some movies haven't aged well, but I feel this one feels fresh in a surprising amount of ways.

A little talky and sluggish, but with good performances and a lot of atmosphere. Ava Gardner is awesome.

This didn't click with me like WOOLF or DESIRE, but it's not bad. Well-paced character drama with some good comedy and a fair amount of racy material, and very well shot in a remote location. It seems a little overwritten at times, but it sheds some decent light on the human condition. Gardner pretty much steals the show with a sharp, brassy performance, although Burton is good, too. Kerr kinda bores me, but she's okay. I enjoyed this film, even if it probably won't stick with me very long.

Huston does a great job of "opening" this play up, but the carefully etched characters' penchant 4 discussions that touch on the more profound areas of humanity like loss, social expectation& God-instilled desires reveal its stage roots. Luckily Williams' writing has a sense of humor: his protagonists may all be in various states of despair, but they're also optimistic& surprisingly (4 its time) libidinal, which keeps them relatable& never dull. The ending's incongruously pat, but the rest works

Proudly embracing sentiment and tastefully manifesting cloudy romanticism, this is a passionately thoughtful work, mixing the grievous with the saucy... All in a toweringly poetic tone. Is this John Huston? This isn't the Huston I knew (after The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The African Queen); this is a perceptive filmmaker dealing with intimate and intangible matters...

absolutely excellent

Fantastic performance by Ava Gardner in this stunning melodrama.

play is better.