Stage director Mike Nichols makes an impressive dramatic film debut in Edward Albee’s Pulitzer prize-winning play. Elizabeth Taylor (who added quite a few pounds and won an Oscar) and Richard Burton are college professors George and Martha, who are entertaining a new young professor, George Segal and his wife, Sandy Dennis (Oscar for Supp. Actress). What starts as fun degrades into worse and worse revelations and distress in this party in hell. Acting doesn’t get much better than this, everyone leaves you emotionally drained. All the actors were Oscar nominated, the ladies both won. 5 Oscars