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Titolo originale: Suddenly, Last Summer
Regia: Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Anno: 1959
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Thriller Dramma Mistero
Tag: operation | spain | widow | hunger | lie | turtle | post | dysfunctional family | mental institution | memory | hospital | psychiatrist | doctor patient relationship | lobotomy | brain surgery | gay theme |
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor | Katharine Hepburn | Montgomery Clift | Albert Dekker | Mercedes McCambridge | Gary Raymond | Mavis Villiers | Patricia Marmont | Joan Young | Maria Britneva | Sheila Robbins | David Cameron | Grace Denbigh Russell | Brenda Dunrich | Eddie Fisher | Frank Merlo | Sheila Raynor | Beatrice Shaw | Florence Stark | Julián Ugarte | Gore Vidal | Rita Webb | Sandra White | Ian Wilson | Roberta Woolley |

Dall'atto unico omonimo (1958) di Tennessee Williams: un giovane neurochirurgo ha qualche sospetto sull'ostinazione con cui una ricca vedova gli chiede di fare la lobotomia su una sua nipote malata di mente e scopre un orribile retroscena.

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Any publicity mentions of this movie being shot in Spain were deleted at the Spanish government's re [...] D
Margaret Leighton was considered for the role of Mrs. Violet Venable. D
Because of years of alcoholism and prescription drug abuse, Montgomery Clift was considered uninsura [...] D
In the French post-synchronized version of this movie, the actors and actresses were dubbed by: Clau [...] D
Vivien Leigh rejected the role of Violet Venable before Katharine Hepburn was cast. D
In the French-dubbed version, the name of Katharine Hepburn's character was inexplicably changed fro [...] D
Eddie Fisher, who was married to Dame Elizabeth Taylor at the time that this movie was released, app [...] D
This was not a happy production for Katharine Hepburn. It kept her from her lover, Spencer Tracy, wh [...] D
Screenwriter Gore Vidal credits movie critic Bosley Crowther with the success of this movie. Crowthe [...] D
For this movie, Katharine Hepburn and Dame Elizabeth Taylor were the second pair of actresses nomina [...] D
The second of four movies adapted from Tennessee Williams stage plays in which Dame Elizabeth Taylor [...] D
Patricia Neal played the lead role to so much acclaim on the London stage she was sure she would be [...] D
The filmmakers were given special dispensation by the Breen office so that the homosexuality of Seba [...] D
Peter O'Toole did a disastrous screentest. In fact, it went so badly, when O'Toole was in the runnin [...] D
Shot over a period of five months. D
One of the few classic movies to address smoking as an addiction that can affect the mood or attitud [...] D
This is one of only five movies to receive two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. In this i [...] D
Dame Elizabeth Taylor chose this as her first movie after her contract with MGM ended. She used her [...] D
Although Tennessee Williams received screen credit, he had nothing to do with this movie, other than [...] D
This movie was an adaptation of a one-act play by Tennessee Williams that was originally performed o [...] D
Malcolm Arnold was originally hired to write the score, but found the material so unsettling that he [...] D
According to author Garson Kanin in his memoir "Tracy and Hepburn", Katharine Hepburn was reportedly [...] D
Playwright Tennessee Williams was not a fan of this movie and hated the way it had re-worked his mat [...] D
Screenwriter Gore Vidal and playwright Tennessee Williams' partner Frank Merlo may briefly be glimps [...] D
The allusion to Herman Melville and the Galapagos Islands refers to the "The Encantadas or Enchanted [...] D
In Catherine Holly's climactic monologue, Dame Elizabeth Taylor (who had recently been widowed) used [...] D
Montgomery Clift found the part extremely demanding and had to film many of his scenes in small incr [...] D
In the Italian post-synchronized version of this movie, the actors and actresses were dubbed by: Lyd [...] D
Inside a library at St. Mary's, an obscured Latin quotation etched into the stone on the mantle says [...] D
The only movie for which Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn competed with a co-star for the [...] D
First billed Dame Elizabeth Taylor first appears thirty-four minutes into this movie. D
Two previous Tennessee Williams screen adaptations, Un tram che si chiama Desiderio (1951) and La ga [...] D
According to Mercedes McCambridge, she rode to the London set of this movie in the same car as Montg [...] D
Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz later admitted that he thought the source material was badly construct [...] D
In a 1960 interview, John Wayne criticized Cordura (1959) and this movie as "poison polluting Hollyw [...] D
Re-adapted for television on Great Performances (1971) season twenty-one, episode ten, "Suddenly, La [...] D
Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift appeared in Un posto al sole (1951) and L'albero della vi [...] D