The Night of the Iguana (1964)

THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA  (1964)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: John Huston
    Richard Burton, Deborah Kerr, Ava Gardner,
    Sue Lyon, Grayson Hall, Cyril Delevanti,
    Skip Ward, Mary Boylan, Emilio Fernandez
Misery loves company and gets it in John Huston's screen version of the Tennessee Williams play. Richard Burton's an alcoholic clergyman, on the skids in Mexico, where he leads chattering gringo women on bus tours of religious shrines. Deborah Kerr's an itinerant sketch artist without a peso to her name. Ava Gardner plays an ex-pat innkeeper with an eye for shirtless Mexican boys. Sue Lyon plays (what else?) Lolita. They all go at it tooth and nail, but maybe they could stand to dial it back a bit. Gardner's the scene stealer. Burton looks like he got into character by drinking a lot, and he probably did.