Suddenly, last summer

Resource Information

The work Suddenly, last summer represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Suddenly, last summer

Statement of responsibility

Columbia ; Sam Spiegel presents ; screenplay by Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams ; a Horizon Pictures (G.B.) Limited production in association with Academy Pictures and Camp Films ; produced by Sam Speigel ; directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Contributor

• Academy Pictures
• Horizon Pictures (G.B.)
• Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011
• Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
• Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
• Columbia Pictures Corporation
• Spiegel, Sam
• Camp Films
• Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003
• Clift, Montgomery
• Mankiewicz, Joseph L

Subject

• Mothers and sons -- Drama
• Madre e hijo -- Teatro
• Cannibalism -- Drama
• Mother-son relationship -- Drama
• New Orleans (La.) -- Drama
• Mujeres -- Higiene mental -- Teatro
• Portuguese subtitles
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Women -- Mental health -- Drama
• Thai subtitles
• Fiction films
• Korean subtitles
• Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Drama
• Murder victims' families -- Drama
• Spanish language films (dubbed)
• Film adaptations
• Feature films
• Narcoanalysis -- Drama
• Chinese subtitles
• Spanish subtitles
• Portuguese language films (dubbed)

Genre

• Feature films
• Teatro
• Film adaptations
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama
• Fiction films

Language

• tha
• eng
• eng
• por
• spa
• chi
• eng
• kor
• por
• spa
• eng

Summary

Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death

Member of

• Columbia classics

Cataloging source

CIA

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Production designer, Oliver Messel ; music composed by Buxton Orr & Malcolm Arnold, conducted by Buxton Orr ; director of photography, Jack Hildyard ; editor, Thomas G. Stanford

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Not rated by MPAA

Language note

• English (mono), Spanish, or Portuguese language soundtrack, with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean & Thai; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired
• English, Spanish, and Portuguese sound tracks and English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai subtitles
• Closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond, Mavis Villiers, Joan Young, Patricia Marmont, Maria Britneva, David Cameron

Runtime

114

Series statement

Columbia classics

Target audience

general

Technique

live action