1959 Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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.
Elizabeth Taylor Katharine Hepburn Montgomery Clift Albert Dekker Mercedes McCambridge Gary Raymond Mavis Villiers Patricia Marmont Joan Young Maria Britneva Sheila Robbins Julián Ugarte Eddie Fisher David Cameron Beatrice Shaw Frank Merlo Gore Vidal Sheila Raynor Sandra White Rita Webb Ian Wilson Florence Stark Brenda Dunrich Roberta Woolley Grace Denbigh Russell
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gay representation before #representation--tennessee williams speaks himself into existence through the voices of grand dames and southern belles. williams refers to gay men as "belles" in his journals; liz taylor's catherine looks into the middle distance and tells montgomery clift about a diary she writes in the third person--"she." this is all in the play, but maybe the hollywood magic of the film arrives with montgomery clift as the doctor. clift was gay in real life, and doomed. it's not his best outing, nor is it williams' but there they are. katherine hepburn's mrs. venable stares at the doctor and remarks how like her son's eyes are his, how sebastian would have been "charmed" by him. Gay is memory, never…
'He liked me, so I loved him.'
An aching work about how loneliness victimizes us – and those around us.
Suddenly, Last Summer is a broken ode to three victims of loneliness who ruin their own and each other's chances of happiness in their blind fumbling for the divine. The divine carries different meanings for each: Sebastian looks for God high in the clouds, Violet (Katharine Hepburn) regards her son Sebastian as God, and Cathy (Elizabeth Taylor) seeks the divine in her escape from last summer's trauma when she was witness to Sebastian's death.
All three characters' quests for salvation turn into an obsession, a last desperate attempt to flee from their self-destruction – but all they manage to do…
the camp value of casting katharine hepburn, monty clift, and liz taylor in a tennessee williams adaptation (wherein katharine hepburn descends from the sky in a byzantine-style elevator) is astronomical
An ambitious and provocative outlook on the effects of incest, relationship hostility, grief, and deceit, ultimately utilizing its insanity through conversational and dialogue-driven scenes. There’s nothing more hectic than watching two women slowly reveal their descents into madness, and there’s no better duo to perform such acts than Katharine Hepburn and Liz Taylor. The right amount of melodrama, sass, and intensity is injected into each scene, making the film thrilling, jaw-dropping, and absolutely bonkers from start to finish. Tennessee Williams was genius from the mind, and audacious from the heart.
“Suddenly Last Summer” is an earnest melodrama that hides itself behind the visage of a southern gothic mystery. It’s a tale of repression and necessary deception - made by a cast and crew well-practiced in the arts of social misdirection.
Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s film works from a script penned by playwright Tennessee Williams, was adapted for the screen by Gore Vidal, and which stars Montgomery Clift. Essentially, it might be Mankiewicz holding the deed of ownership, but all the other core craftsmen of the movie — were gay.
The premise of “Suddenly” has Clift as a doctor perfecting the technique of the lobotomy. He’s asked by the mother (Katharine Hepburn) of a young man who has died to perform the…
“You’ve got to cut this hideous story out of her brain!”
In a desperate bid to preserve the warped memory of her deceased sex predator son, a deep-pocketed but unbalanced grande dame (Katharine Hepburn) proffers a monstrous quid pro quo to a craven hospital director (Albert Dekker): convince your saintly neurosurgeon (Montgomery Clift) to lobotomize my “babbling” niece (Elizabeth Taylor), and you’ll receive the up-to-date surgical ward your state-run hospital so direly requires.
Though adapted by the esteemed Gore Vidal from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams (who shares co-writing credit despite his claim that he had no involvement with the film), Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s film version flirts needlessly with a two-hour run time. Nonetheless Hepburn and Taylor are camp…
