Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Released in 1964 and directed by John Huston based on Tennessee Williams' play, "The Night of the Iguana" stars Richard Burton as a defrocked Episcopal minister who resorts to a job leading bus tours on the Mexican west coast. As he guides a group of middle-aged Baptist women to Puerto Vallarta, he struggles with the attentions of a teen sexpot (Sue Lyon) and the antagonism of her curmudgeonly ward (Grayson Hall). The group ends up at a bed & breakfast where the effervescent proprietor (Ava Gardner) and a spiritual artist (Deborah Kerr) aid the ex-clergyman in coming to terms with the failures haunting him. Skip Ward plays the hunky bus tour assistant.As much as I appreciate this drama, it's too bad it was shot in B&W as color would've really enhanced it, particularly considering the resort setting. (I'll never understand why filmmakers insist on shooting in B&W when color is readily available). The movie is also marred by some contrived melodrama with Burton guilty of chewing too much scenery. At the same time, it's interesting to go back in time with these old dramas and observe the artificialities of the (over)acting based on the contrivances of an inflexible script.Despite my criticisms, there's a lot to savor here. The rich (and sometimes synthetic) dialogue is full of gems to mine. The film is an honest rumination on the human condition. The theme is to cease struggling and to ride out the hardships of life, whether they're the result of one's own folly or otherwise. The answer will come; just be on the look-out for the "messenger" or "assistant" and, of course, accept. On other fronts, Sue Lyon is outstanding as the Lolita, probably because she literally played Lolita in her previous film, 1962's "Lolita." Thankfully, she's more womanly here. She was 17 during filming and thoroughly sumptuous, particularly in her short shorts. Gardner also looked great at 41, but her character is too boozy and it's a turn-off. She's well contrasted by the almost saintly Kerr.Interestingly, there's a brief denouncement of lesbianism, which wouldn't work today. In our current upside down culture it would be hailed as the highest good, worthy of a call from the President (rolling my eyes). RUNTIME: 118 minutes. SHOOTING LOCATIONS: Puerto Vallarta and Mismaloya Village, Mexico. GRADE: B

NIGHT OF THE IGUANA is the last play of Tennesse Williams. Three years after its Broadway success John Huston reworked it into one of Hollywood's most honored albeit in black and white films. The leads are played with style and depth by Richard Burton and Deborah Kerr. The role of the proprietress of the Mexican bed and breakfast, a supporting role in the play is expanded through considerable non talking filming of a brilliant Ava Gardner into the third lead. the private struggles we all go through when life deals us lemons are focused here into a single night in which Richard Burton and Deborah Kerr must through long monologues arrive at how to live through them and even find peace. The filming changes somewhat the storyline through long, brilliant shots where Williams does not have dialogue but it is certainly one of Hollywood's most memorable character study dramas.

John Huston sometimes broke completely loose in sophisticated but splendid comedy, and "The Night of the Iguana" is probably the best example. Here Tennessee Williams and Huston have found each other fitting each other perfectly in a black comedy of fall and crisis of human decency. Not only Richard Burton is defrocked, but everyone is. When his tormenting shrews at last leave him alone there is nothing left of them, and they are abandoned with delighted glee to their further unavoidable disasters. Ava Gardner is indestructible as the already completed waste of a life she is, which she has learned to make the best of with her beach boys, and there is nothing pathetic about that enjoyable resignation. Nonno the poet is exuberantly played by Cyril Delevanti, who makes a formidable caricature of a passed out poet and manages to make him not only credible but talented - a 97-year old poet couldn't be more convincing. But most impressing is Deborah Kerr, who by just being herself in all human intact simplicity somehow manages to save the dignity of them all. The supreme award however goes to Tennessee Williams for his remarkable charting of human nature in these totally different characters in a dialogue that never ceases to engage in admirable eloquence. This is one of those films to always return to at least once every decade to find new details in it to cherish, laugh at, learn from and memorize. Even Nonno gets to finish his last poem as the iguana somehow manages to resolve the whole situation. This might be John Huston's best film, although he made many good ones.

between a play, a director and unique cast. show of characters, occasion to shine for each actor, precise manner to present Williams style, realistic and bitter, cruel and delicate, image of vulnerability and fruits of small gestures, it is more than a film. it is a legendary meeting. because , profound, delicate, impressive, it is trip in heart of a world. our world , the universal message, build brick by brick, is the wall against our ordinaries feelings against enemies from yourself.so, it is, in same measure, a Tennesee Williams slice, demonstration of John Huston science of detail and control of nuances force, memorable performance of Ava Gardner and same Richard Burton as axis of a soul desert. the innocence of Deborah Kerr character - heart of a melancholic universe, its cure and definition are seed for unforgettable memories. a masterpiece. or, just, reflection of every viewer.