This wonderfully overheated drama by Tennessee Williams, who wrote the screenplay with Gore Vidal, is animated by ultra-powerful performances from Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn.
Taylor plays Catherine Holly, the niece about to be committed to a mental institution by southern matriarch Violet Venable (Hepburn) after witnessing the violent death of a cousin, with Montgomery Clift as John Cukrowicz, the neurosurgeon called in to assess the girl’s sanity rating before a possible lobotomy.
Director Joseph L Mankiewicz makes it a class act all round.
Catherine Holly
Elizabeth Taylor
Dr John Cukrowicz
Montgomery Clift
Mrs Violet Venable
Katharine Hepburn
Dr Hockstader
Albert Dekker
Mrs Holly
Mercedes McCambridge
George Holly
Gary Raymond
Miss Foxhill
Mavis Villiers
Sister Felicity
Joan Young
Nurse Benson
Patricia Marmont
Lucy
Maria Britneva
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
