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The Night of the Iguana (1964)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:10

Rotten:4

Average Rating:7.2/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Residing is a small hotel on the west coast of Mexico, Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, a defrocked Episcopal preacher, hides from his lecherous past. He finds work as a tour guide for a group of... Residing is a small hotel on the west coast of Mexico, Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, a defrocked Episcopal preacher, hides from his lecherous past. He finds work as a tour guide for a group of American teachers, but soon comes under criticism from their prudish leader when an 18 year-old in her care starts lusting after him. Shannon also receives a good deal of attention from the seductive hotel owner. He spends most of his time, however, with an idealistic spinster and her 97 year-old grandfather. This wheel chair-bound poet claims that he will expire upon the completion of his final manuscript -- a literary endeavor he has been laboring on for the last twenty years. [More]

Starring: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon

Starring: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, Grayson Hall, James Ward, Cyril Delevanti, Emilio Fernandez, Mary Boylan, Gladys Hill, Billie Matticks, Eloise Hardt, Thelda Victor, Liz Rubey, Bernice Starr, Barbara Joyce, C.G. Kim, Fidelmar Duran

Director: John Huston

Director: John Huston
Producer: Ray Stark
Screenwriter: Anthony Veiller, John Huston
Composer: Benjamin Frankel

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May 2, 2006

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  • 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.
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    Would play well on a double-bill with Huston's The Misfits.

    Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
    06/08/06
    Walter Chaw
    Walter Chaw
    Film Freak Central

    Mr. Huston has got some scenic beauty of the Mexican coast here and there in black-and-white. But the setting, at the last, becomes monotonous -- just like the all-talk, no-play film.

    Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
    05/09/05
    Bosley Crowther
    Bosley Crowther
    New York Times
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    Brilliant, apart from some minor plot glitches.

    Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
    05/05/08
    Neil Jeffries
    Neil Jeffries
    Empire Magazine

    No one but Tennessee Williams could have concocted it, but anyone other than John Huston should have directed it.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    05/05/08
    Dave Kehr
    Dave Kehr
    Chicago Reader
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    Though uneven and not as powerful as other Williams-based films, Huston's version benefits from a high-profile cast, headed by Burton, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon and best of all Ava Gardner as the lusty hotel owner and Grayson Hall as the repressed lesbian

    Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
    07/21/08
    Emanuel Levy
    Emanuel Levy
    EmanuelLevy.Com

    This adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play is heavy on melodrama and earnest performances, but weak on dialogue and lasting meaning.

    Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
    09/06/05
    Christopher Null
    Christopher Null
    Filmcritic.com

    Noteworthy for Burton's acerbic performance and Ava's seen-it-all portrayal of an earthy lady.

    Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    05/20/04
    Dennis Schwartz
    Dennis Schwartz
    Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Direction by John Huston is resourceful and dynamic as he sympathetically weaves together the often-vague and philosophical threads that mark Tennessee Williams' writing.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    05/05/08
    Variety Staff
    Variety Staff
    Variety
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    Alternately fascinating and boring.

    Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
    05/05/08
    TV Guide's Movie Guide

    Films of Tennessee Williams' plays now often look very artificial and overwrought, but with this Huston came up with one of the best.

    Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
    01/26/06
    Time Out

    Huston always had a sensitive hand in adapting great literary works and this is no exception, successfully bringing Williams' writing to the screen while effortlessly adding the Huston touch.

    Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
    05/24/03
    Channel 4 Film

    No review available.

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    11/28/04
    Jonathan R. Perry
    Jonathan R. Perry
    Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

    Burton and Gardner star in heavily dramatic John Huston film.

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    05/25/07
    Steve Crum
    Steve Crum
    Video-Reviewmaster.com

    Hot, Hot, Hot!

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    08/20/06
    Cole Smithey
    Cole Smithey
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