Who directed the film Night of the Iguana?
The Night of the Iguana is a stageplay written by American author Tennessee Williams. Based on Williams’ 1948 short story, the play premiered on Broadway in 1961. Two film adaptations have been made, including the Academy Award-winning 1964 film of the same name. When American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour guide for a bus load of spinsters and a teenage nymphet named Charlotte Goodall, who is being chaperoned by the group’s leader, the inflexible Judith Fellowes. Miss Fellowes, who is quite jealous of Charlotte’s attentions to Shannon, discovers the young woman in his room and vows to have him fired. To thwart her plot, Shannon takes control of the bus from Hank, the bus driver, and speeds the tour group on a wild ride through the Mexican jungle to the crumbling, secluded hotel of an old friend, the recently widowed Maxine Falk. Eventually Shannon becomes enam
Directed by master John Huston, based on the Tennessee Williams smash hit, and nominated for a flock of oscars, Night of the Iguana is a blast! Sources: http://www.lasnark.
