# The Night of the Iguana (1964)

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**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: John Huston
**Written by**: John Huston, Anthony Veiller
**Starring**: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon, Skip Ward, Grayson Hall

> *One man... three women... one night*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Apparently someone thought a bus full of Baptist women in Mexico needed a troubled priest. A defrocked clergyman leads a tour of middle-aged women. It meanders to a predictable conclusion.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, tender

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