Warner Archive has finally released John Huston’s 1964 film of Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana on Blu-ray.

Williams’ 1961 play was his last successful original Broadway production. Although many of his plays, including The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sweet Bird of Youth, are still frequently revived, this one hasn’t seen a Broadway revival since 1996.

The film’s Oscar-nominated cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa (The Pearl) and art direction and set decoration by Stephen Grimes (Out of Africa) shine more exquisitely than ever on the shimmering Blu-ray. Dorothy Jeakins’ Oscar-winning costumes are among the finest of her long career, which included Oscar-nominated work on The Ten Commandments, The Music Man, The Sound of Music, The Way We Were, The Dead, and more.

The play, which is about a defrocked minister drinking himself to death in a Mexican resort town, originally starred Patrick O’Neal as the minister, Bette Davis as the hotel manager, and Margaret Leighton as the spinster accompanying her elderly poet grandfather, played by Alan Webb. Leighton won a Tony for her performance. Davis, who was extremely miscast as the sexually provocative hotel manager was replaced midway during the play’s ten-month run by Shelley Winters. A 1976 revival received Tony nominations for Richard Chamberlain as the minister and Dorothy McGuire as the spinster. Sylvia Miles played the hotel manager. Both the 1988 and 1996 revivals were flops. Neither the former with Jane Alexander as the hotel manager nor the latter with Marsha Mason in that role received any awards recognition.

Curiously, the only performer nominated for an Oscar for the film version was Grayson Hall in a supporting role as the lesbian tour guide with whom Richard Burton, as the minister, clashes. Ava Gardner as the hotel manager, Cyril Delevanti as the poet, and Hall were all nominated for Golden Globes for the film, which was also nominated for Best Picture – Drama and Best Director. Burton was nominated instead for Becket. Deborah Kerr, who gave the film’s most touching performance as the spinster, was curiously not nominated for either this or The Chalk Garden, although she was nominated for a BAFTA for the latter.

Kerr’s rebuke to Burton, “nothing human disgusts me,” is second only to her “when you talk about this, and you will, please be kind,” her last line from Tea and Sympathy, in the actress’ repertoire of immortal lines.

Huston was nominated for a Directors Guild award along with Peter Glenville for Becket, Stanley Kubrick for Dr. Strangelove, Robert Stevenson for Mary Poppins and the winner, George Cukor for My Fair Lady. Oscar nominated all but Huston, replacing him with Michael Cacoyannis for Zorba the Greek.

Huston, a Best Supporting Actor nominee the previous year for The Cardinal, had by this time received twelve Oscar nominations and wins for writing and directing 1948’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. He would receive just two more nominations in his lifetime, for writing 1975’s The Man Who Would Be King and directing 1987’s Prizzi’s Honor.

On the streaming front, Netflix has both Where the Crawdads Sing and Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

Where the Crawdads Sing is the first full-length feature film from director Olivia Newman. The screenplay is by Lucy Alibar (Beasts of the Southern Wild) from the bestselling novel by Delia Owens.

Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) stars as a self-reliant girl who raised herself in the Southern marshes after the one-by-one departure of her parents and siblings. Adding to her heartbreak is her betrayal of the only boy she trusted, played by Taylor John Smith (TV’s Cruel Intentions). Accused of the murder of a local bully played by Harris Dickinson (Triangle of Sadness), she is defended by local lawyer David Strathairn (Nomadland).

The film’s gorgeous cinematography by Polly Morgan (Lucy in the Sky) is Oscar worthy as are the Hollywood in Music Media Awards-nominated Score by Mychael Danna (Life of Pi) and theme song, “Carolina,” by Taylor Swift.

The latest version of D.H. Lawrence’s oft-filmed Lady Chatterley’s Lover is exquisitely directed by Laure de Clairmont-Tonnerre The Mustang). It is a sumptuous production starring Emma Corrin (TV’s The Crown) as the unfulfilled Lady Chatterley and Jack O’Connell (Unbroken) as the gamekeeper who becomes her lover. Matthew Duckett has the thankless role of the lady’s wheelchair-bound husband. Joley Richardson (TV’s Nip/Tuck) plays the housekeeper.

Richardson had previously starred in a 1993 miniseries version of the novel with Sean Bean as her lover, James Wilby as her husband, and Shirley Anne Field as the housekeeper.

Streaming on Prime is Claire Scanlon’s People We Hate at the Wedding.

The critics haven’t been kind to this one, a comedy of manners, or more precisely, the lack of them, but I thought it was charming enough to spend some time with.

Allison Janney (The Help) is top billed as the mother of three, but the film’s larger roles are played by Kristen Bell (Frozen) and Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hanson) as her children from her second marriage, and Cynthia Addai-Robinson (TV’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) as her biracial daughter from her first marriage who is the one getting married.

The plot revolves around the estrangement of the children from Janney’s two marriages, who will, of course, kiss and make up, before the credits roll.

Dustin Milligan (TV’s Schitt’s Creek) as the guy Bell meets cute on the plane is well utilized in the film, but Tony Goldwyn (Ghost) and Julian Ovenden (Bridgerton) are wasted in minor roles.