The Night of the Iguana
Let There Be Light: The Films of John Huston
December 19, 2014 - January 11, 2015
Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, and Ava Gardner lead the near-flawless cast of Huston’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play about a reverend thrown out his parish for sexual misconduct and sent into exile as a tour guide in Mexico.
“Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control,” a conflicted priest reminds himself at the start of this hothouse melodrama. Huston assembled a near-flawless cast to bring Tennessee Williams’s 1961 play to the screen: Richard Burton as a reverend thrown out of his parish for sexual misconduct and sent into exile as a tour guide in Mexico; Sue Lyon as a young woman whose advances further threaten his position; Deborah Kerr as a repressed traveler with whom he fatefully crosses paths; and the great Ava Gardner as the proprietress of the run-down hotel where the characters spends much of the film chipping away at one another’s defenses.
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