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MOVIE: Suddenly, Last Summer
First thoughts: The doctor is so very smart. Very forward thinking. Calm. Direct and Focused.
My Own Review:
The movie is slow and hard to follow in the beginning... by means of being near-boring... However, I must say that Elizabeth Taylor steals the show with her unbreakable performance. Katherine Hepburn is equally talented in delivering the assumption of her character’s truly hidden dementia. Elizabeth makes you want to believe in her character’s amnesia-ridden story. Even empathize with her loneliness and despair as she tightly embraces the doctor throughout the film.
Also Adding:
Elizabeth Taylor’s character, Catherine, is much smarter than she let’s on. Distraught by the heavy realization that her own mother and brother wish to sign away her rights to undergo a lobotomy against her will, all for money; she lashes out the truth before dashing out of her temporary quarters to hide.
She so easily escapes being seen, all by remaining calm. Carefully pacing through the hall in her expensive dress suit from Paris.
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MOVIE DETAILS: Suddenly, Last Summer
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast:
Katharine Hepburn Elizabeth Taylor
Montgomery Clift Mercedes McCambridge
Genres: Classics, Drama
Awards:
1960 Academy Award®: Best Actress nominee: Katharine Hepburn
1960 Academy Award®: Best Actress nominee: Elizabeth Taylor
1960 Academy Award®: Best Art Direction Black and White nominee
Original Release Date: 1959
113 minutes
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