John Huston's adaptation of Night of the Iguana is superb, primarily for the always incredible performance of Richard Burton. Burton may be my favorite male actor for his command of the English language and the intensity of his acting and this is one of his best performances as the wayward Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon. The qualities of dramatic intensity and incredible dialogue are at their peak in the works of Tennessee Williams. Great performances all around including Ava Gardner, in possibly her last great role, Deborah Kerr and the actually hateable - not for lack of performance quality but b/c of the quality - performances of Sue Lyon (who plays an annoying, confused tease) and Grayson Hall (as a spinster who is keeping an eye on Lyon's character and despises Burton's Shannon). Richard Burton has been in classics and he's been in crap, but he's always great regardless of the material.

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