The Night of the Iguana

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Cast

Richard Burton

as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon

Ava Gardner

as Maxine Faulk

Deborah Kerr

as Hannah Jelkes

Sue Lyon

as Charlotte Goodall

Skip Ward

as Hank Prosner

Grayson Hall

as Judith Fellowes

Cyril Delevanti

as Nonno

Mary Boylan

as Miss Peebles

Gladys Hill

as Mlle Dexter (uncredited)

Emilio Fernández

as Barkeeper (uncredited)

Reviews

Wuchak

_**Melodrama on the Mexican Coast with Burton, Gardner and Kerr**_ Released in 1964 and directed by John Huston based on Tennessee Williams' play, "The Night of the Iguana" stars Richard Burton as a defrocked Episcopal minister who resorts to a job leading bus tours on the Mexican west coast. As ...

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