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Lock the door: for our April devotional to Paul Newman, we’re revisiting Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Vulture critic Roxana Hadadi.

Kiss Me or Kill Me: Sexual Desperation and Identity Erasure in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Roxana Hadadi·

Issue 72: Thirst Traps

Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' | artwork by Brianna Ashby

In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a carnal energy roils and simmers in the air, like the thunderstorms rolling in over the plantation, drenching everyone to the bone.

Episode #11: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Kiss Me or Kill Me: Sexual Desperation and Identity Erasure in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof