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In 1937 New Orleans, Catherine Holly is a young woman institutionalized for a severe emotional disturbance that occurred when her cousin, Sebastian Venable, died under strange circumstances while they were on summer holiday in Europe.
Suddenly, Last Summer: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker. A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1960-01
Mar 22, 2020 · Suddenly, Last Summer revolves around Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor), a woman institutionalized after the death of her cousin, Sebastian, who died under mysterious circumstances while with her on holiday.
Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is a young woman institutionalized for a severe emotional disturbance that came about when her cousin, Sebastian Venable, died under questionable circumstances while they were on holiday in Spain a few months earlier.
In July of 1936, while vacationing in Spain with his cousin Catherine Holly ( Elizabeth Taylor ), young poet Sebastian Venable suddenly died of a heart attack and Catherine was left in a state of amnesia and "dementia praecox".
After Violet describes a trip with Sebastian to the Galapagos Islands, where they witnessed flesh-eating birds devour newly hatched sea turtles, she tells John that she traveled with Sebastian every summer, except for the last one, when Sebastian went with Catherine and died of a heart attack on the day that Catherine lost her mind.
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Sebastian's death certificate was presented to Dr. Cukrowicz - confirming that he died of a heart attack and fell onto the ground in the hot sun in the "god-forsaken village" where they were vacationing. His "damaged" body was brought back in a sealed coffin.
