Suddenly, Last Summer

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Suddenly, Last Summer, 1960.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Suddenly, Last Summer, 1960.

Mother Grace (Mercedes McCambridge) and brother George (Gary Raymond) visit Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor) at the mental hospital, her doctor (Montgomery Clift) attending, to explain a contingency in a bequest from a dead cousin, in Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959, from a Tennessee Williams play.

Sane but institutionalized Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor), makes trouble for the matron (Joan Young), as she meets lobotomy specialist Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), visiting on behalf of her rich, evil aunt, in Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959, Gore Vidal's screenplay from Tennessee Williams' play.

Psychiatrist Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) arrives at the invitation of Violet (Katharine Hepburn, with a famous entrance), whose son Sebastian has died, and who has proposed a large gift to the mental hospital where he works, in Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959, also starring Elizabeth Taylor.