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...Night of the Iguana. All horseplay and no headwork, the gossips sneered, will surely make John a dull picture. But Director Huston (Freud), as often before, has saucily tweaked the bluenoses. In ten wild weeks at a sunny place for shady people on Mexico's spectacular west coast, Huston and company put together a picture that excites the senses, persuades the mind, and even occasionally speaks to the spirit-one of the best movies ever made from a Tennessee Williams play...
...horselaugh as well as harrumph, and it's an absolute delight to watch the most perverse of playwrights tell a tale in which the nadir of naughtiness is attained by a man with a harmless though peculiar passion for ladies' underwear. Huston, what's more keeps Iguana scuttling along at a right smart rate, and as always he shrewdly challenges his actors with delegated creativity. They all respond. Kerr lends charm and finesse to a meaching masochist. As for Burton, he makes more sense in this movie than he has in his last half-dozen efforts...
...slimy 99° in Manhattan is strictly for lizards, but 2,500 hot-blooded types nevertheless turned out for the $100-a-seat premiere of Night of the Iguana at Philharmonic Hall. The acoustics were spotty as usual, the beef Puerto Vallarta even worse, and Mrs. Burton, in star-spangled blue, presided until Dickie showed up after curtains at Hamlet. But honors for the evening went to Ava Gardner, 41, in aqua satin, looking generations lovelier than the blowsy harridan she played onscreen. With the hordes outside hollering "We want Ava," she could hardly wait until after supper to flee...
They were down there to film The Night of the Iguana...
That no self-respecting iguana would...