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.
The John Huston film was shot just south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on La Jolla de Mismaloya (The Bay of Mismaloya). There is a hotel and resort that now occupies the bayfront and maintains the old sets as restaurants and tourist attractions.
