Suddenly, Last Summer
Directors
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Katharine Hepburn
- Montgomery Clift
Credits: 6
Summary
A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
More about this movie
A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), attempts to bribe Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans, Louisiana mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds, into lobotomizing her niece, Catherine Holly (Dame Elizabeth Taylor). Violet wants the operation performed in order to prevent Catherine from defiling the memory of her son, the poet Sebastian (Julián Ugarte). Catherine has been babbling obscenely about Sebastian's mysterious death that she witnessed while on vacation together in Spain the previous summer.