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<blockquote data-quote="Seaviewer" data-source="post: 369486" data-attributes="member: 57">Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)As I wrote recently in the &quot;Katharine Hepburn&quot; thread, I saw this a long time ago on TV and I think I see now why as a kid I had no idea what it was about other than being set in an insane asylum.I see now that the subtext is buried so deep that I&#039;m sure that it must have been heavily censored compared to the original play.There is evidently a 1993 remake which I&#039;ll have to catch up with to see if they&#039;ve been more obvious with the homosexual themes they refer to here only obliquely, but I doubt that Maggie Smith can top Hepburn&#039;s performance.Elizabeth Taylor is also very good (oddly,I saw her as teenager just a few weeks ago in Life With Father). In fact Monty Clift as the doctor is often reduced to simply wandering back and forth between the set pieces of the two divas, the denouement being a sort of face off which reminded me of the courtroom climax of The Caine Mutiny - the mental disintegration of the one vindicating the stand of the other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Seaviewer, post: 369486, member: 57"] Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) As I wrote recently in the "Katharine Hepburn" thread, I saw this a long time ago on TV and I think I see now why as a kid I had no idea what it was about other than being set in an insane asylum. I see now that the subtext is buried so deep that I'm sure that it must have been heavily censored compared to the original play. There is evidently a 1993 remake which I'll have to catch up with to see if they've been more obvious with the homosexual themes they refer to here only obliquely, but I doubt that Maggie Smith can top Hepburn's performance. Elizabeth Taylor is also very good (oddly,I saw her as teenager just a few weeks ago in [I]Life With Father[/I]). In fact Monty Clift as the doctor is often reduced to simply wandering back and forth between the set pieces of the two divas, the denouement being a sort of face off which reminded me of the courtroom climax of [I]The Caine Mutiny[/I] - the mental disintegration of the one vindicating the stand of the other. [/QUOTE]

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