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Suddenly, Last Summer
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.
1959 · Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 114 min · Thriller · Drama · Mystery · 19 frames
Tagline
Suddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil!
Crew
- Screenplay: Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal
- Cinematography: Jack Hildyard
- Edited by: William Hornbeck, Thomas Stanford
- Music: Malcolm Arnold, Buxton Orr
- Production design: Oliver Messel
- Produced by: Sam Spiegel
Cast
- Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly
- Katharine Hepburn as Violet Venable
- Montgomery Clift as Dr. Cukrowicz
- Albert Dekker as Lawrence Hockstader
- Mercedes McCambridge as Grace Holly
- Gary Raymond as George Holly
- Mavis Villiers as Miss Foxhill
- Patricia Marmont as Nurse Benson
- Joan Young as Sister Felicity
- Maria Britneva as Lucy
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Horizon Pictures, Academy Pictures Corporation, Camp Films, Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $3,000,000
- Box office: $9,000,000
- Themes: operation, spain, widow, hunger, lie, turtle, post, dysfunctional family, mental institution, memory
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