Suddenly, Last Summer
NR, 114 min.
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Mercedes McCambridge, Albert Dekker.

Tennessee Williams here uses homosexuality, lobotomies, and cannibalism as plot points in this sanitized version penned for the screen by Gore Vidal. Still, the battles between the imperious Hepburn and the presumed-mad Taylor are pure theatricality, while sensitive shrink Clift observes it all and emotes.

This article appears in May 12 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.