Suddenly, Last Summer

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1959 PG-13 1h 54m
7.3 /10
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Suddenly, Last Summer
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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.

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Geronimo1967
15 Nov 2025

Simone Signoret pipped both of these women to the Oscar but Liz Taylor did take a Donatello for her powerful performance in this controversial psychol...

T
28 Aug 2022

Howard Hawks defined a good film as “three good scenes and no bad ones.” Suddenly, Last Summer has four very good scenes dominated by one of the two g...

John Chard
26 Sep 2014

Talk is never cheap when sourced from Tennessee Williams. Millionairess, Violet Venable is obsessed with her now dead son, Sebastian. Sebastian met...

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