Suddenly, Last Summer (the movie)

the film is infinitely better due to the script Rx of gore vidal...

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I love it very much. It's so crazy. The performances are a lot of fun to watch and the dialogue is wonderful.


"And the sand, all alive, all alive, as the hatched sea-turtles made their dash for the sea, while the birds hovered and swooped to attack and hovered and---swooped to attack!"

-"I can't guarantee that the operation will stop her..babbling."

-"That may be, but after the operation, who would believe her, Doctor?"

"He took me home in his car, but he took me another place first. We stopped near the Duelling Oaks at the end of Esplanade Street . . . . Stopped!---I said, "What for?"---He didn't answer, just struck a match in the car to light a cigarette in the car and I looked at him in the car and I knew what for!"

"That's the way he talked about people, like they were items on a menu. That one is appetizing, or that one is not appetizing."

"We'll fly north, little bird, I've never seen the Aurora Borealis..."

"We're all of us children, a vast kindergarten, trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks."

"Isn't that what love is, using people? And maybe that's what hate is, not being able to use people."

"I started writing my diary in the third person, singular, such as "She's still living this morning, "meaning that I was...---"WHAT'S NEXT FOR HER? GOD KNOWS!"

"He bought me a swim suit I didn't want to wear, I said, "I can't wear that, it's scandal to the jaybirds!"

"(describing the sun) It looked as if--as if a huge white bone had caught on fire in the sky."

"Truth is at the bottom of a bottomless well."

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I've rarely heard anything good about the movie, but I got it through NetFlix a couple months ago and thought it was wonderful. I'm really not a fan of Montgomery Clift, but he was very good as Dr. "Sugar" and I loved Elizabeth Taylor in it.

By the by, I have to admit I was shocked (considering the time period) by Elizabeth's bathing suit at the end!

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That movie creeped me out! I had no idea what it was about before I watched it. Katharine and Elizabeth gave amazing performances.

Loved this film! The scene descsribing the attack was mesmerizing. You didn't have to see what happened to feel just as horrified.

I can't imagine anyone, even Maggie, doing a better job in that role than Hepburn. She seemed perfect. I agree that Elizabeth shone.

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Sebastian's sexuality is not really talked about specificly in the original play either. It's still pretty clear what they're talking about and probably more interesting that way as far as this particular piece goes.

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Thanks for posting photos.
I hope this movie comes on again. I want to finish it.

Do you ever think she looks back on that pic (or one like it) and thinks, "What the hell happened?"

Poor Liz.

Taylor at least looks a lot better than Brigette Bardot, whose hatred has manifested itself on her face in unfortunate ways.

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