SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959)

The trailer for 1959’s SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz from a script by Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal, based on the play by Williams. The cast includes Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker, Julián Ugarte, Mercedes McCambridge, Eddie Fisher, Gary Raymond, and Mavis Villiers.

The plot summary is as follows:

A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. John Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans, Louisiana 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 vacation together in Spain the previous summer.

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel and is available to rent/purchase on most digital platforms.