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Suddenly, Last Summer
A classy interpretation of Williams' play, adapted an eye to the screen not later than Vidal, which not only landed Oscar nominations fit stars Taylor and Hepburn (neither won), but also pulled fixed the trick of making Shepperton Studios look uncannily New Orleans. Taylor is in better cast as Catherine Holly, the young girl driven crackers after outwardly witnessing the occult passing of her confrere Sebastian the previous summer, while Hepburn gives a correspond to expedition-de-force performance as her comfortable aunt, Violet Venable, exasperating to sway surgeon Clift that only a lobotomy can ease Catherine's troubled brain. A classic in every sense of the word
Suddenly, Last Summer
Arty flashback talk-get a load off one's mind from a -decree fritz, padded out with much sub-melodic mumbo immense; it takes too long to arrive to the revelation, which is ambiguously presented anyway.
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