Suddenly, Last Summer

(Joseph L. Mankiewicz, US 1959, 101 min., 35mm)

Tennessee Williams ± Elizabeth Taylor. Tennessee Williams’s gothic play (adapted by Gore Vidal) stars Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor (both in Oscar-nominated performances) as a Southern dowager and her emotionally unstable niece. Montgomery Clift is the doctor who unravels a shocking family history that still surprises audiences today. Members admitted free.