Night of the Iguana

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The Night of the Iguana is a play by Tennessee Williams about American tourists in Mexico. It has been made into movies twice, in 1964 and 2001. Its main character is a minister, T. Lawrence Shannon, who has been accused of statutory rape and has problems with alcoholism and insanity. Other characters include the women from a Baptist college whom Shannon is directing a tour for, Maxine, a hotel owner, and Hannah, a painter, who travels with her grandfather, an old poet who dies during the course of the play. Richard Burton played Shannon in the 1964 movie version.