A Ray Stark production - perhaps this is how Margaret Booth and he became acquainted (it's an MGM release).
Originally a Tennesse Williams play, adapted for the screen by Huston and Peter Viertel.
Wonderful pot of characters, really well played: Richard Burton a chastised priest, Ava Gardner an effervescent, world-weary hotelier, Deborah Kerr an itinerant artist and her father poet Cyril Delevanti, man crazy teen Sue Lyon and embittered tour leader Grayson Hall (That Darn Cat). With Skip Ward as the driver, and Emilio Fernandez in a cameo.
Gabriel Figueroa shoots Mexico lovingly, good (uncredited) operating. The hotel is a set in Mismaloya, the stars had houses nearby; Liz and Richard ended up buying their's. Benjamin Frankel score, Ralph Kemplen edited.
Most entertaining. Attempt of Ward to fight the Mexican boys most amusing.
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