Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

About

Based on the Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, the film centers around an alcoholic ex-football player whose reunion with his dying father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both parties. 

Trivia

Director Richard Brooks co-wrote the screenplay with James Poe. The movie was one of the top-ten box office hits of 1958.