The Night of the Iguana

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Directed by

John Huston

Starring (View all)

Richard Burton
Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon

Ava Gardner
Maxine Faulk

Deborah Kerr
Hannah Jelkes

Sue Lyon
Charlotte Goodall

Skip Ward
Hank Prosner

Grayson Hall
Judith Fellowes

Cyril Delevanti
Nonno

Mary Boylan
Miss Peebles

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Tennessee Williams
(play)

Anthony Veiller
(screenplay) and

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Description: The publicity around the shooting of The Night of the Iguana, with its giant cast in tiny Puerto Vallarta and tinier Mismaloya, Mexico, was itself legendary. Despite the margaritas, Richard Burton turned in a magnificent performance as Tennessee Williams’s Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, minister to his own passions, living a “comparatively comfortable, even voluptuous crucifixion” as a tour guide to repressed Baptist ladies from Texas. Ava Gardner’s cackling longing out-Lizes the off-screen Liz. But it is in Deborah Kerr’s prim godliness that Shannon recognizes his opposite self, the one lost to maleness. The Reverend k ... (more)

Release date: 6 August 1964