SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959)

 

Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Based on the stage play by: Tennessee Williams

Screenplay by: Gore Vidal

Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond, Mavis Villiers, Patricia Marmont, Joan Young, Maria Britneva, Sheila Robbins, David Cameron, Julián Ugarte

114 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Wealthy harridan Violet Venable attempts to bribe Dr. John Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans, Louisiana mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds, into lobotomizing her niece, Catherine Holly, to prevent the girl from defiling the memory of her cousin, Violet's poet son Sebastian. Catherine has been babbling obscenely about Sebastian's mysterious death that she witnessed while they were vacationing together in Spain the previous summer.

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