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Suddenly, Last Summer is a 1959 Southern Gothic mystery film based on the 1958 play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. The film was shot in England, Spain and the Balearic Islands.
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.
In 1937 New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), working at the state-run Lion's View Mental Institution, is experimenting with a radical new treatment for hopeless cases of lunacy: lobotomy.
In this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, young socialite Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is traumatized and committed after witnessing her cousin's violent...
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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) ORIGINAL TRAILER. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift.Suddenly, Last Summer DVD : https://amzn.to ...
A beautiful girl is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the violent death of her cousin. The doctor uses a truth serum on her and confirms his suspicions that her.
Overview. The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director. Gore Vidal. Screenplay. Tennessee Williams. Screenplay.
SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER. Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received 1960 Oscar® nominations for Best Actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. Beautiful Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Catherine ...
Katharine Hepburn is deliciously perverse as a malevolent New Orleans matriarch trying to convince a brain surgeon (Montgomery Clift) to lobotomize her troubled niece (Elizabeth Taylor). But what long-buried traumatic memory is the girl suppressing?
The plot centers on a young woman who, at the insistence of her wealthy New Orleans aunt, is being evaluated by a psychiatric doctor to receive a lobotomy after witnessing the death of her cousin, Sebastian Venable, while traveling with him in Spain the previous summer.
