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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.
Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is a young woman institutionalized for a severe emotional disturbance that came about when her cousin, Sebastian Venable, died under questionable circumstances while they were on holiday in Spain a few months earlier.
Sinopsis. En Nueva Orleans, en 1937, la joven Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) es internada en un hospital psiquiátrico gracias a su tía, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), una adinerada viuda que ha perdido a su hijo cuando este estaba en compañía de Catherine.
Suddenly, Last Summer: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker. A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
Año: 1959. Título original: Suddenly, Last Summer. Sinopsis: En la Nueva Orleans de 1937, una rica viuda, la señora Venable, ofrece al doctor Cukrowicz los fondos para crear un hospital a condición de que practique una lobotomía a su sobrina Catherine.
4 de feb. de 2022 · When the doctor asked about her failed poet-son Sebastian's death, she matter-of-factedly stated that the previous summer, Sebastian died of a heart attack while his cousin Catherine was traveling with him for the first time in Spain (in the beachside resort town of Cabeza de Lobo).
Year: 1959. Original title: Suddenly, Last Summer. Synopsis: In 1937 New Orleans, Dr. John Cukrowicz, working at the state run Lion's View Mental Institution, is experimenting with a radical new treatment for hopeless cases of lunacy: lobotomy.
