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DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 15, 2000
• R2: 11 Nov 2002
Budget $3,000,000
MPAA Rating
NR
Running Time
1 hour, 54 minutes
Country USA
Studio Columbia Pictures
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Other Titles
• Plötzlich im letzten Sommer (1960)
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Genre: Drama, Psychodrama, Suspense, Gay/Lesbian, Doctor, Disturbing, Melodrama, Mental Institution, Prostitution, Tragedy, Mental Illness
Tagline: Suddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil!
Plot: Gore Vidal's stark, powerful screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams's play explores the trauma of Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor), whose homosexual cousin dies an unspeakable and gradually revealed death while traveling with her in Europe. Katharine Hepburn as the murdered man's mother can't bear to hear the details of her son's death, preferring instead to have a lobotomy performed on her niece, insisting that the girl is mad. But a doctor (Montgomery Clift) is determined to explore the reasons behind the girl's inexplicable actions and words, eventually uncovering the secrets the mother wants to hide. Williams's play explicitly stated why the murdered man's death so traumatized his cousin, but this adaptation written by Vidal and filled with wild, moody tension by director Joseph L. Mankiewicz allows viewers to read between the lines and gather their own suspicions about Sebastian Venable's death. Taylor radiates uncertainty and fear as the girl terrorized by her cousin's death and her fierce aunt's obsession to keep her quiet, while Hepburn sways with menace in one of her few, deliciously played roles as a villainess. Both actresses were nominated for Best Actress Oscars for their performances.
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Gore Vidal
Caligula, The Left Handed Gun, The Catered Affair | |
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| Music By |
Malcolm Arnold
The Bridge on the River Kwai, Tunes of Glory, Hobson's Choice | Buxton Orr
Fiend Without a Face, Corridors of Blood, First Man Into Space |
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