Suddenly Last Summer
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Katherine Hepburn wants her niece Elizabeth Taylor, who has gone insane, lobotomized by the doctor, to prevent her from spilling the secret of how Katherine's son actually died. | Katherine Hepburn wants her niece Elizabeth Taylor, who has gone insane, lobotomized by the doctor, to prevent her from spilling the secret of how Katherine's son actually died. | ||
| − | Watch it here on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTsJdG0JdoM&feature=related Part 1], | + | Watch it here on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTsJdG0JdoM&feature=related Part 1], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6UN7gQZW0&feature=related Part 2] |
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| + | Or buy it on [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004RXES/102-9279843-7223326?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00004RXES VHS], or [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004TWZH/102-9279843-7223326?ie=UTF8&tag=countyh-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00004TWZH DVD]. | ||
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The action opens at the Lion's View State Asylum where we watch Dr. John Cukrowicz ([[Montgomery Clift]]) perform a lobotomy. The wealthy widow Violet Venables requests he come to see her, as she is very interested in his work, and so next we meet her played by [[Katherine Hepburn]]. Violet tells John that not only is she a widow but her only child Sebastian who was a poet, has recently died. | The action opens at the Lion's View State Asylum where we watch Dr. John Cukrowicz ([[Montgomery Clift]]) perform a lobotomy. The wealthy widow Violet Venables requests he come to see her, as she is very interested in his work, and so next we meet her played by [[Katherine Hepburn]]. Violet tells John that not only is she a widow but her only child Sebastian who was a poet, has recently died. | ||
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| + | Violet speaks about Sebastian constantly, his favorite color was white, he was a poet, he died young, he had this or that view of this or that. Now we learn that there is an insane niece who evidently is raving horrible things about Sebastian at a nunnery.<blockquote>"Sebastian saw the face of God"</blockquote> | ||
