At the prompting of Guardian readers, film critic Peter Bradshaw revisits Richard Brooks's 1958 adaptation, which delivers a homosexual hero paralysed with self-hatredI haven't seen Sarah Esdaile's production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. But now it's a fascinating experience to watch the 1958 film version of Tennessee Williams's play, adapted and directed by Richard Brooks, and starring E…
