The Night of the Iguana (1964)

	Directed by: John Huston	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE Iguananatten RUNNING TIME 148 minutes
	Produced by: John Huston Ray Stark
	Written by (based on the play by Tennessee Williams): John Huston Anthony Weller

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Reverend Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon	Richard Burton	½
Maxine Faulk	Ava Gardner
Hannah Jelkes	Deborah Kerr
Charlotte Goodall	Sue Lyon
Hank Prosner	James Ward
Judith Fellowes	Grayson Hall
Nonno	Cyril Delevanti

Review

The impressive cast of this rather tedious John Huston movie is given a challenging task to keep the narrative appealing. Dramatically, The Night of the Iguana should have been compelling and interesting, but Huston's screenplay is poorly paced and the dialogue far too theatrical. Remarkably, the movie works great on a comedic level, mainly due to Richard Burton’s brilliant performance and Ava Gardner's outlandish character. It is mainly these two that keep the movie afloat, as a lot of great dramatic potential is wasted by artificial scenes that fail to explore the characters in any sort of depth.