Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) play/screenplay Tennessee Williams/Gore Vidal
Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) play/screenplay Tennessee Williams/Gore Vidal
Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
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.
So there's the cannibalism. That's bad enough. Also, Sebastian prostitutes his sister in order to make contact with men with whom to have homosexual contact. Not only that, but also Catharine's mother procures for her a lobotomy so that she won't be able reliably to continue to report what has been done to her. ... It's your choice which of those three is ethically worst.
Garry Gillard | reviews | New: 13 September, 2018 | Now: 1 August, 2019