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''Suddenly Last Summer'', a 1959 movie starring [[Montgomery Clift]] as Dr. Cukrowicz, opposite [[Elizabeth Taylor]] as "Kathy" and [[Katherine Hepburn]] as "Violet Venables".  The movie was adapted from a play by [[Tennessee Williams]], in a screenplay by both Tennessee Williams and [[Gore Vidal]].

=Synopsis=
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.

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=Plot=
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.

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.  Violet then relates a graphic story of how she and Sebastian witnessed the annual hatching of the sea turtle eggs and their race to the sea while thousands of flesh-eating birds devour them before they can.<blockquote>"Sebastian saw the face of God"</blockquote><blockquote>"We're all of us trapped by this devouring creation"</blockquote>

Now we meet the annoyingly talkative Vi and her son George, and learn that Vi is the mother of the insane girl, Kathy.  Violet doesn't particularly like them and makes it clear.  Now we meet Kathy, who is being held in the nunnery as a violently insane person.  Kathy reacts as a person held to be insane, who isn't. (A little too sensible, so we know right away something odd is up.)

In the next scene we learn that Kathy has amnesia.  She cannot remember anything prior to the Mardi Gras ball the previous Spring.  She relates a story of what happened at that ball.<blockquote>A man offers to take her home, but on the way they stop and make love on the grass.  He then tells her that he is married, then he takes her home.  She returns to the ball and he is back there as well, and she attacks him, but Sebastian takes her back home.</blockquote>