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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.
A 1959 drama thriller based on Tennessee Williams' play, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift. The film follows a young woman who witnesses her cousin's death in Spain and faces a lobotomy to hide a family secret.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1960-01
Suddenly, Last Summer | Rotten Tomatoes. Released Dec 22, 1959 1h 54m Drama LGBTQ+. List. In this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, young socialite Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is...
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- Elizabeth Taylor
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Horizon Films
Suddenly Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, written in New York in 1957. It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams' one-acts, Something Unspoken (written in London in 1951).
Suddenly Last Summer, drama in one act by Tennessee Williams, published in 1958. It concerns lobotomy, pederasty, and cannibalism. It is the melodramatic yet horrific story of Sebastian Venable, a self-involved sadistic gay man with an overprotective mother.
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A psychological thriller about a young woman who witnessed a shocking incident involving her cousin and his mother in Spain. She is committed to a mental institution and faces a lobotomy to hide the truth from the public.
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift. Gay panic, incest, and a sprinkling of cannibalism: Tennessee Williams’s one-act southern-gothic shocker gets an appropriately lurid screen adaptation cowritten by Gore Vidal and Williams himself.
