When Richard Brooks and James Poe turned the stage play Cat on a hot tin roofinto a film script, they focused mainly on the plot and fashioned his adaptation of Tennessee Williams' work after Hollywood romances that were popular in the 1950s. ... Drama in the stage Cat is created via dialogue. ... The film version of Cat looses over its original, but since Williams himself stated, "I wrote Cat for the money," he most likely agreed with the adjustments made to fit the play to a broader audience....

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