Tennessee Williams was much more than a good writer, he was a man with sense to describe the misdeeds or wrong matters. The content of his novels is only comparable to Theodor Dreiser's ones.This film is a good example of Williams sense, and probably Paul Newman in the role of young Chance Wayne did not disappoint neither the director Richard Brooks nor Tenessee Williams. The film shows discrimination of rich over a poor guy, who was quite ignorant, but wanted to succeed as an actor in Hollywood. Instead he had to behave as Gigolo serving as a driver of famous actress, always far from his beloved girl due to the fact that she was rich and the daughter of city's major, while he was a nonety and poor. It is a kind of Romeo and Juliet but where money is the main limiting factor and not the rivalry of the families. Obviously his father wanted at any cost to prevent her to be with Chance. Certainly Tenessee Williams wanted to show the hypocrisy and false values of the medium where those persons were living, and he succeeded.
Review of Sweet Bird of Youth
