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Genre Foreign, Drama
Format Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn, Joseph Mankiewicz, Elizabeth Taylor, Sam Spiegel, Horizon Pictures (G.B.) Ltd., Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 55 minutes
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A beautiful girl is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the violent death of her cousin. The doctor uses a truth serum on her and confirms his suspicions that her "hallucinations" areindeed fact. The shock causes her wealthy aunt to relapse into unreality.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1, 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.84 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 4752
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Joseph Mankiewicz
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Black & White, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 55 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ August 15, 2000
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Portuguese, Spanish
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, Portuguese, Georgian, Chinese, Thai
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Sam Spiegel
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00004TWZH
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,311 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary!
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2013
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I loved everything about this movie. To start with, there is incredible acting from Katherine Hepburn, Mercedes McCambridge, Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. The movie opens with Montgomery Clift, as a psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, performing a lobotomy in a state hospital. A lot of the movie takes place inside the walls of a state psychiatric hospital, and that theme was titillating during that time in history. The movie was supposed to take place in 1937, but the movie was made in 1959. It was just 3 years later, in 1962, that Kennedy was in office, and that the U.S. closed all the state run psychiatric facilities in the real world. There was a lot of interest within the public about what went on behind the walls of "mental hospitals". There was a lot of interest in Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift romantically, and rumors about Clift's homosexuality. Put all this together with the plot of the movie, and you have a huge audience. It was unbelievably easy to rent through Amazon. The movie was on my computer in less than 30 seconds.

I remember being a child when the movie came out and hearing adults whispering about the movie. Of course, my curiosity was peaked. I would ask my mom over and over to tell me what the movie was about - what everyone was talking about. I never really found out all the angles. When I rented this movie, I watched it three times back to back, absorbing every sentence, every nuance by the cast.

I still can't believe that the movie made it through censorship. I read that the cast was not allowed to say "homosexuality" and not refer to it during the filming. The first time I saw the movie, in my twenties, I really didn't understand it. I couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about. This is a great movie for today's audiences. It was ahead of it's time. Watching it recently, I was at the edge of my seat. It won't appeal to everyone. I was a nursing student when I got part of my psychiatric clinical experience in a similar institution in Canada. I know those places existed. There were patients there who had lobotomies. For me,the movie has everything, wrapped up in one production. It's still controversial....and it's an extraordinary piece of film.
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5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT ACTING THROUGHOUT THE FILM
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2016
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Tennessee Williams play always has something that touches me. I am not a fan nor watched a lot of his theater play or his films but whenever I saw the movies based on his play, I can feel it that they have something that has deep meaning or something that remainds for days. Something that makes me think for long time even after the moive is finished.
In this movie Elizabeth Tayler suffers from mental problem after witnessing his cousin's death. Montgomery Clift, a brain doctor decides to help her. When him and Elizabeth and the aunt of her's who is played by Katharin Hapburn all got together, Montgomery pull out everything in Elizabeth's mind to cure her. That is a very long scene. From that moment, the doctor figures out that the real problem is not her but her aunt.
That is the main point from this film.
Katharin played her evil roll so well that she even made me shake and my hair all stand up, if there's a word like that.
There are too many dialogues but the last scene was a memorable and I cannot complain about the long dialogues at all since William's plays are all like that.
Elizabeth and Hapburn are so good that Montgomery's acting was almost invsible.
Two main actresses were alomst like growling the whole time. I never seen one like that before.
I don't see classic movies that much. But this is a pleasant surprise.
The movie was shot in Black and white and was 1.85:1. Full screen for the widescreen TV.
The location was very limited and I liked it that way.
I also personally thought that Hapburn was brave that she appeared herself in the screen even after she was aged. She was always remembered when she was young and beautiful for me. But not in this film. She was old and grumpy.
If you want to experience some movie that has really good acting with spark through the whole movie, you should check this out.
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Darla
5.0 out of 5 stars Great cast well written
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2024
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Some good twists and turns. Great cast.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I cannot answer this in detail as the tv was for my brother but he is very pleased with the product.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2024
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\\the recipient was very pleased with the dvd.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Suddenly Last Summer
Reviewed in India on September 16, 2017
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Wonderful film with its wonderful cast-Elizabeth Taylor,Montgomery Clift & Katharine Hepburn.And our beloved beautiful Liz is magnificent in this movie as Cathy.
Always love the movie and if you watch,you also sure will.Buy it,an extraordinary gem of your collection and an asset for whole life.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Never judge a book by its cover.
Reviewed in Australia on February 12, 2021
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Katherine Hepburn. Also reputedly a good actress did not enjoy her performance. Her voice grated on me after a while. Although an old movie it held you to the end to find out the reasons why the main actress had emotional problems. Good viewing for those who like old movies.
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ニセルパン
5.0 out of 5 stars テネシーウィリアムズのベストワンかも・・・
Reviewed in Japan on August 2, 2019
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本作でエリザベス・テイラーはただのお飾りのような（？）ヒロイン像とは違う極めて複雑な女主人公を演じなければならないのだが（レイプされた過去を語る場面も半ばにある）、その難役を見事に演じ切っている。挑戦意欲と向上心の強い女優だったことをうかつにも本作で初めて知った。何せ、例えば「ジャイアンツ」での彼女の役は大した演技力を求められてもいなかったし、美しければよかった。
亡き愛息を追慕する未亡人役のキャサリン・ヘプバーンはドンピシャの適役で、見事である。医師役のモンゴメリー・クリフトは失礼ながら可もなく不可もなしだろうか。
なお、最後まで顏を出さないセバスチャン役の男優は「特典」で静止画ではあるがその素顔と全身像を観ることができる。なんともいい男っぷりである。彼は全く無名のままだったのだろうか？と名も出されないままだったから余計に気になった。
ところで原作はあのテネシー・ウィリアムズ。翻訳本を探したのだか直ぐには見つからなかった。というのも原題は　 ＳＵＤＤＥＮＬＹ，ＬＡＳＴ　ＳＵＭＭＥＲ　映画の邦題は「去年の夏、突然に」だが、「この夏、突然に」という邦題で戯曲が全訳されていた。確かに　ＬＡＳＴは「過ぎた」の意味であり、今が秋なら、今年の夏も　ＬＡＳＴ　ＳＵＭＭＥＲ　になるわけだ。且つ、戯曲通りでは「この夏」であり、映画では「去年の夏」になっているからそれぞれの邦題も正しい。映画化にあたってはウィリアムズ自身が脚色したらしい。映画と戯曲の違いを探るのもまた一興。その延長で、戯曲としての英語の原書も手に入れ、辞書片手に読み込むほどの我ながら大変な熱中ぶりだった。
いや、もしかしたら、テネシー・ウィリアムズの戯曲の中でベストワンなのではないか？
ミステリー仕立てで進む展開。それぞれ一癖も二癖もある登場人物たち。間に挿入される惨劇の予感。女主人公キャサリンの正真正銘のトラウマが明らかにされる過程。そして、とんでもないどんでん返し・・・。
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5.0 out of 5 stars Remarquable!
Reviewed in France on August 11, 2016
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Admirable film en noir et blanc, 16/9 qui serait plus du Tennessee Williams sous la regard de Mankiewicz qu'autre chose mais qui se présente également comme une étude psychologique acerbe et pleine d'acuité avec ici de longs dialogues prestigieux.
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Il est certain que cette histoire plus que scabreuse et affolante si elle avait été réalisée avec plus de réalisme n'aurait pas pu franchir les frontières de tout ce qui était strictement interdit en 1959 mais tout y est dit avec la plus grande finesse de suggestion.

Sébastien, qui dans cette histoire est mort, est le centre d'intérêt du film et dans le jardin hallucinant de Sébastien, aux plantes carnivores, sa mère
demande à un jeune chirurgien de pratiquer une lobotomie ( opération qui en 1937 n'en était qu'à son stade expérimental ) sur sa nièce qui selon cette mère est folle, dépravée et vulgaire.

Or pourquoi cette mère veut-elle cette trépanation pour sa fort belle nièce? Quel secret veut-elle que l'on passe sous silence ou bien la mère aurait-elle tellement peur de la vérité qu'elle voudrait refouler ce qu'elle craint si fort dans sa passion par trop exacerbée et toujours présente pour son fils?

Et pour quelle raison sa nièce devenue amnésique ne présente toujours pas ces signes de démence et est prise en considération et mieux en
affection par ce chirurgien?

Et puis comment Sébastien était-il mort ''l'été dernier'' alors que l'on apprendra qu'il se servait de sa mère, quand elle était jeune, puis de sa cousine ensuite pour ''appâter'' qui? Toute la gent masculine et de plus à coups de dollars!
Et encore, on aura trouvé ici ce miroir aux alouettes proposé par la mère très fortunée de ce Sébastien-là au chirurgien et à la mère comme au frère de cette même nièce! Vénalité et compromission du sang...

La dernière scène ahurissante du film frise le fantastique avec une évocation finale du cannibalisme qui relèverait plutôt du symbolisme, de la lutte des classes et surtout d'un rejet par trop violent de certaines moeurs... Sacré Tennessee et sacré Joseph!
Qui était la plus folle? Katharine Hepburn ( la mère ) ou Elizabeth Taylor ( la nièce )? Qui était le plus sage et le plus prudent: Montgomery Clift ( le chirurgien! ) Admirables interprétations de ces trois incomparables artistes.

N'ayez crainte, à la limite, ce film, tel qu'il fut conçu en 1959, pourrait être vu en famille!

Billy.
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