Det er en historie om en sydstatsfamilie. Sygdom, alkohol og jalousi har ødelagt familien, kærlighed og had ligger ikke langt fra hinanden. På en varm og trykkende sommeraften kommer fortvivlelsen op til overfladen, og der opstår en dramatisk konflikt.
Genre: Drama
Stjerner: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson, Madeleine Sherwood
Mandskab: Richard Brooks (Director), Lawrence Weingarten (Producer), Tennessee Williams (Theatre Play), William H. Daniels (Director of Photography), Richard Brooks (Screenplay), James Poe (Screenplay)
Land: United States of America
Sprog: English
Studio: Avon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Kørsel: 104 minutter
Kvalitet: HD
Udgivet: Aug 29, 1958
IMDb: 3.4
nøgleord:dying and death, depression, individual, suicide, jealousy, husband wife relationship, southern usa, mississippi river, plantation, patriarch, based on play or musical, inheritance, sibling rivalry, brother against brother, alcoholic, dying father, family conflicts, father son conflict, southern gothic, star athlete, homosexual subtext, cotton plantation, mississippi
