Rotten
The cast packs enough sexual ambiguity to satisfy the most rabid Williams fan (not to mention a screenplay by Gore Vidal), but Mankiewicz leaves much of the innuendo unexplored -- thankfully, perhaps.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Suddenly, Last Summer
Suddenly, last summer, Cathy knew she was being used for something evil!
1959 · 1h 54m · Approved
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Overview
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Director and cast
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director
- Elizabeth Taylor as Catherine Holly
- Katharine Hepburn as Mrs. Violet Venable
- Montgomery Clift as Dr. Cukrowicz
- Albert Dekker as Dr. Lawrence J. Hockstader
- Mercedes McCambridge as Mrs. Grace Holly
- Gary Raymond as George Holly
- Mavis Villiers as Miss Foxhill
- Patricia Marmont Cast
- Joan Young Cast
- Maria Britneva Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
68%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It has some very effective moments, but on the whole it fails to move.
Variety Staff, Variety
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.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten
The main trouble with the picture is not its subject or its style, but its length.
TIME Magazine
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.
Time Out
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