Movie
Suddenly, Last Summer
Mystery film with a runtime of 114 minutes, released in 1959. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer is a domestic drama concerning homosexuality, insanity and cannibalism. Brain surgeon Montgomery Clift is summoned to the home of fabulously wealthy Katharine Hepburn, who wants to have her daughter-in-law Elizabeth Taylor lobotomized. Recently released from an asylum to Hepburn's care, Taylor suffers from horrific nightmares and unpredictable bursts of violent behavior. As it turns out, Taylor is harboring an awful secret concerning Hepburn's late, beloved son--a secret that Hepburn intends to keep from the world, even at the expense of Taylor's life. The explanatory flashback is as lurid a piece of filmmaking as ever emerged from the supposedly white-bread 1950s. Reportedly, Hepburn so despised Mankiewicz that she spit in the director's eye on the last day of filming.
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Cast
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Katharine Hepburn
- Montgomery Clift
- Mercedes McCambridge
- Albert Dekker
- Gary Raymond
- Mavis Villiers
- Patricia Marmont
- Joan Young
- Maria Britneva
- Sheila Robbins
- David Cameron
- Roberta Woolley
- Gig Young
- Oliver Messel
- Tom Howard
- Joan Ellacott
- Dave Aylott
- Peter Thornton
- Thomas Stanford
- William Kellner
- Gore Vidal
- Tennessee Williams
- Buxton Orr
- Norman Hartnell
- Jean Louis
- Jack Hildyard
- Scott Slimon
- William W. Hornbeck
- William Hornbeck
