Suddenly, Last Summer

Monday, June 16, 2025

Monday, June 16 at 6:30 p.m.: Post-screening book signing and discussion with Michael Koresky, co-founder of Reverse Shot, Senior Curator of Film, Museum of the Moving Image and author of Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness  and film critic Melissa Anderson (4Columns)

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.

 

 

• Country USA, UK
• Year 1959
• Running Time 114 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Sony (Maccsbox)
• Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz
• Cast Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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