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The Night of the Iguana

1964

John Huston

Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner, Sue Lyon ...

7.5

6,229

Drama When defrocked American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour guide for a bus load of spinsters and a teenage nymphet named Charlotte Goodall, who is being chaperoned by the group's leader, the inflexible Judith Fellowes. Miss Fellowes, who is quite jealous of Charlotte's attentions to Shannon, discovers the young ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Neil Jeffries Empire	"Brilliant, apart from some minor plot glitches (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Performances by Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr are superlative"	NEU
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"It fails to generate the sympathy and the personal compassion that might make [the characters'] suffering meaningful"	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Films of Tennessee Williams' plays now often look very artificial and overwrought, but with this Huston came up with one of the best"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Williams's allegorical structure and subterranean wit turn to pure lead in Huston's hands"	NEG

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