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Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received 1960 Oscar nominations for Best Actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. Beautiful Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Catherine's aunt, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), tries to influence Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), a young neurosurgeon, to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of sodium pentothal, Dr. Cukrowicz discovers that Catherine's delusions are, in fact, true. He then must confront Violet about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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69%- Reviews Counted: 16
- Fresh: 11
- Rotten: 5
- Average Rating: 7.1/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: The main trouble with this picture is that an idea that is good for not much more than a blackout is stretched to exhausting length and, for all its fine cast and big direction, it is badly, pretentiously played.
Fresh: Superbly adapted with blistering performances from Taylor and Hepburn.
Fresh: On film, with Taylor as the woman who saw something nasty and Clift as the psychiatrist trying to probe her trauma, the one-act material is stretched perilously thin; but it works for Hepburn as the incarnation of civilised depravity.
Fresh: A classic in every sense of the word.
Customer Reviews
Suddenly, Last Summer
Wish they could still make movies like this! Some of the finest acting and directing you'll ever see. Tennessee Williams at his best.
A gorgeously gothic and creepy adaptation
An intellectual "horror" movie, gorgeously gothic, with a sublime cast. The cinematography of the backyard of Violet Venable is a sinister masterpiece.
Awesome
Elizabeth Taylor at her best; worth the whole movie to see her in her famous white lisle bathing suit; as it becomes transparent.
Amazing entrance by Ms. Hepburn enters scene descending in open elevator in mid conversation, so divinely eccentric; be sure and catch the statuary in her garden of evil tranquility.
My favourite E.T. Movie; check out "Boom." another Tennessee Williams obscure your de force, w E.T.
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- Genre: Drama
- Released: 1959
- © 1960, renewed 1988 Horizon Pictures (G.B.) Ltd. All Rights Reserved.