The Night of the Iguana

About 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.

The Night of the Iguana is a 1964 romance film directed by John Huston. Released in August 1964, it runs 118 minutes.

The film is filed under mexico, church, alcoholism, and alcoholic. It is adapted from a stage production.

Richard Burton takes the lead as Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon, Ava Gardner as Maxine Faulk, Deborah Kerr as Hannah Jelkes, and Sue Lyon as Charlotte Goodall. The screenplay is by Anthony Veiller and John Huston. Produced by Seven Arts Productions. In the United States it streams on YouTube TV.

First Reformed, The Shining, and Crazy Heart make useful companions to The Night of the Iguana, all filed under minister. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 176 votes and it carries a NR rating.