Remembering Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in.... "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" " No neck monsters" Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams and adapted by Richard Brooks and James Poe. One of the top-ten box office hits of 1958, the film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives. Late one night, a drunken Brick Pollitt (Paul Newman) is out trying to recapture his glo