🎬 #TCM is #screening its 4th #movie today based upon Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play—"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) starring #PaulNewman and #ElizabethTaylor.

Newman's "Brick" is an ex-jock, the scion of a wealthy Southern family. He has "latent homosexual feelings" for his jock buddy "Skipper" who recently died.

But when the smash-hit #Broadway play was adapted for film:

"'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' not only conforms with the [rules to self-#censor] #HaysCode but, through revisions, is made an exemplar of it. Director and co-writer #RichardBrooks neatly erases the #narrative’s knottiest questions and replaces them with the kind of perfect #Christian values the code sets out to propagate. The #film became the kind of #homophobic attack on #queerness that Williams sought to #critique, inverting his complex progressives in favor of easily digestible #moralizing.

https://filmdaze.net/homosexual-erasure-in-cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof/

Will H. Hays is unamused with the implied Hanky Panky that the airport control tower scene cut alludes to ...
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#TCMParty #Casablanca #HaysCode #Art