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Suddenly, Last Summer

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Suddenly, Last Summer
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NR,1hr 54min
Genres:
Drama,Horror
Released:
January 1, 1959
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift  ...more
Synopsis: In this lush, lurid adaptation of the 1957 Tennessee Williams one-act, Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn play a seemingly insane, young New Orleans debutante and the wealthy aunt who wants to lobotomize her. Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) is a gifted Chicago brain surgeon stymied by the primitive operating conditions at the New Orleans asylum where he works. Society matron Violet Venable (Hepburn) offers a solution in the form of a million-dollar grant -- as long as Cukrowicz will treat ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard, AMG Review
From its gothic settings to its potent female stars and its lurid subject manner, Suddenly, Last Summer presents a mixture of operatic Southern passions and high-camp excess unequaled in American cinema. The sight of Katherine Hepburn coyly descending from on high in an ornate elevator to preside grandly over her prehistoric garden is itself enough to scare away viewers looking for anything approaching ... Full Review
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Elizabeth Taylor
Catherine Holly
Katharine Hepburn
Mrs. Violet Venable
Montgomery Clift
Dr. John Cukrowicz
Albert Dekker
Dr. Hockstader
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Blythe Danner attends a meet-and-greet event for the cast of the Roundabout Theatre Company...
Elizabeth Taylor in "Suddenly, Last Summer" (Doc Pele / Stills / Retna Ltd)
'Suddenly, Last Summer' (1959) Who's Your Mommy? Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn). Hepburn is at...
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