

The Night of the Iguana
One man... three women... one night
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
- $12M
- Language
- English
- hotel
- mexico
- bus
- tourist
- minister
- poet
- bus driver
- based on play or musical
- tourist guide
- alcoholism
- priest
- tour bus
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNRNew York City, New York30 Jun 1964
- TheatricalNR6 Aug 1964
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical6 Oct 1964
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical20 Oct 1964
GermanyDE
- Theatrical9 Sept 1964
JapanJP
- Theatrical27 Aug 1964
NetherlandsNL
- Physical6DVD14 Jun 2006
SpainES
- PremiereSan Sebastian Film Festival9 Jun 1964
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1122 Sept 1964
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The Night of the Iguana was released on 6 August 1964.
Audience reviews
2- W7/10
Wuchak
6/6/2021
_**Melodrama on the Mexican Coast with Burton, Gardner and Kerr**_ Released in 1964 and directed by John Huston based on Tennessee Williams' play, "The Night of the Iguana" stars Richard Burton as a defrocked Episcopal minister who resorts to a job leading bus tours on the Mexican west coast. As he guides a group of middle-aged Baptist women to Puerto Vallarta, he struggles with the attentions of a teen sexpot (Su…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/29/2025
Though we don’t really know quite why at the time, it’s fairly clear the the “Rev. Shannon” (Richard Burton) has rather lost the confidence of his flock and so it’s not really surprising to find him now tour-guiding some evangelist American women round the sights of Mexico. This fellow has a penchant for the bottle and is little interested in his charges. Unluckily for him, the impressionable young “Charlotte” (Sue L…
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