The Night of the Iguana - Opening Scene - 1964

The opening scene of The Night of the Iguana, 1964. Starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr.

[@grantc4516]

A magnificent opening scene to a magnificent film, which in turn is based on a magnificent play.

[@greatmusicfan57]

This film is one of the best ever fom the 60s Gardner and Burton should have won Oscars. I have the DVD. Just adore this film. Deborah Kerr was terrific too.

[@spnkysy791]

My all time favorite movie. A great dialogue movie. When Richard Burton snapped it was off an running!

[@GregRenaud]

A voice and delivery worthy of a clergyman, Burton brought the role to life.

[@flower24587]

Richard Burton best actor ever

[@mgmail7279]

You've probably seen Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. But if not, I highly recommend it. Liz and Dick are stellar!

[@JuanGonzales-zq2fh]

gifted voice Richard

[@larryforrest5038]

This is my kind of preacher. Amen!

[@glennsohm6643]

The film is one of my favorites. There are some emotionally powerful performances...and this opening scene is one of the best. Although many of the scenes in the movie lack the nuances that would draw the viewer deeper into the lives of the characters, and the movie fails to engage sometimes, all in all it is worth the time spent watching it. And, although I dislike the basic concept of digital colorization, this is one movie that I would accept seeing colorized.

[@janwintz7240]

John Huston chose to shoot it in B&W so that the audience wouldn't be distracted by the beauty of its location (Puerto Vallarta).

[@parallaxcontinuum7898]

Consider what the late Orson Welles said about the Turner Network efforts along those lines,'" keep their box of crayons from despoiling my work"

[@davidgough3512]

If a shot can't hold up in b&w it's not a good shot. I saw a video examining the first Indiana Jones in B&W, and the artistry stood out so much better. However, the likes of Lawrence of Arabia benefit from color. But this film is such a powerhouse that what you suggest i take as a form of high praise.👍

[@scottweaverphotovideo]

Watched the movie last night and gotta say this opening sequence made me SOOO uncomfortable. It's not easy watching someone fall apart like that. Very excellent movie!

[@janwintz7240]

I have two favorite movies and The Night of the iguana is one of them, beginning with this Richard Burton speech. He is extraordinary!! (My other favorite tied with TNOTI is Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious.

[@davidgough3512]

You've got some high standards, and i salute that. Occasionally artistry takes precedence over spectacle.

[@SZYB3]

Amen! Must see this film

[@MikeSwirled]

"Get your tomahawks, get out your scalping knives, sharpen your scalping knives, scalp me!"

[@parallaxcontinuum7898]

"MEN...with appetites ! Appetites,That I HAVE, INHERITED ! "

[@annakimborahpa]

"I defy you! Shannon defies you!" (2:37-40)

[@sedoff1948]

“Night of the Iguana” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” - Richard Burton was the best actor, and with a sublime voice.

[@onoyudont]

Immense

[@JJTownley_Classical-Composer]

Shannon talks about this incident in the play but we never see it. Here, Lorenzo Semple Jr. the screenplay writer here actually fleshes it out magnificently. For me the screenplay is a vast improvement on the play in much the same way as is the movie version of Becket is.

[@kapple654]

Joni Mitchell adapted this Tennessee Williams play into a song 'night of the iquana', I'd been listening to it for years without knowing. How cool!

[@jitrapornpha5104]

If churches had priests like this today , I’d bother turning up

[@kville501]

New Year’s sermon as per Tennessee Williams).

[@risseldyrosseldy910]

" I said , man of God ,.....AND I MEAN IT "

[@jackreacher.]

...all have fallen....

[@angelgutierrez-kg5du]

Moreen s appearance!

[@DannyPoet]

classic film! shame i dont have it

[@glennsohm6643]

You can order it from Barnes & Noble...that is where I got my copy.

[@davidgough3512]

As per usual, the original trailer is of a different flavor or level of profundity.😂

[@tombryant52jumpscoach]

What does he say at 2:26? ...Men with men's hearts. Wives with three hearts of men (?). They knew hunger and they fed their appetites.

[@MikeSwirled]

Thomas Bryant *wild and free hearts

[@nrgmstr27to]

Transactions that got this pastor thrown out are embraced and added to by evangelicals in today’s political and Megachurch world.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

There's an attention-grabbing opener for you! (How can the rest of the movie match it?)

[@kapple654]

Oscars Wilde: "Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his path And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart May the Lord Christ enter in?"... Tennessee Williams expressed it with character and plot, Wilde with words in a poem 'The Ballard of reading gaol"... New age evangelical teachers are the antichrist compared with old wise marginalised Christian writers. And the more puritanical they become the more extreme will be their sexual transgressions, this preacher didn't rape anyone he was seduced by a young woman... But look at that repulsive Hillsong creature Karl Lentz ... He raped a domestic servant. Next time what?

[@Kikilang60]

Ted Turner bought this movie and had the opening edited to junk. No original copy exist. The opening scene ends with a close-up of the preachers face. His face is beaded with sweat as he screams "There is no God. There is no God." Then it fades to black. Later in the movie he refers to the moment saying , " There is place a preacher preaches atheism from the pulpit." It's crime to censor classic movies for the religious bigots.b

[@James-pq7nf]

YOU RULED RICHARD

[@Georgecuioana]

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