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Suddenly, Last Summer - Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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Directed by: 
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Story by: 
Tennessee Williams
Screenplay by: 
Gore Vidal
Tennessee Williams
Produced by: 
Sam Spiegel
Release year: 
1959
Country: 
United States of America
Runtime: 
114min
Genre: 
Mystery
Thriller
Drama
Music by: 
Malcolm Arnold
Buxton Orr
Subjects: 
Pedophilia
Tagline: 
Suddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil!
Plot: 
A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds, into lobotomizing her niece, Catherine Holly. Violet wants the operation performed in order to prevent Catherine from defiling the memory of her son, the poet Sebastian. Catherine has been babbling obscenely about Sebastian's mysterious death that she witnessed while on holiday together in Spain the previous summer.
Cast: 
Katharine Hepburn
as
Mrs. Violet Venable
Montgomery Clift
as
Dr. Cukrowicz
Elizabeth Taylor
as
Catherine Holly
Mercedes McCambridge
as
Mrs. Grace Holly
Gary Raymond
as
George Holly
Eddie Fisher
as
Street Urchin
Gore Vidal
as
Audience Member at Operation #1
Albert Dekker
as
Dr. Lawrence J. Hockstader
Maria Britneva
as
Lucy
Joan Young
as
Sister Felicity
Mavis Villiers
as
Miss Foxhill
Sheila Robbins
as
Dr. Hockstader's Secretary
David Cameron
as
Young Blonde Interne
Patricia Marmont
as
Nurse Benson
Frank Phillip Merlo
as
Audience Member at Operation #2
Beatrice Shaw
as
Elderly Lady
Florence Stark
as
A Patient #1
Rita Webb
as
Asylum Inmate
Ian Wilson
as
A Patient #2
Roberta Woolley
as
A Patient #3

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