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Suddenly, last summer

Title: Suddenly, last summer / Columbia ; Sam Spiegel presents ; screenplay by Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams ; a Horizon Pictures (G.B.) Limited production in association with Academy Pictures and Camp Films ; produced by Sam Speigel ; directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Publication: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2006]

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Description

1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, black & white; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

"Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death."--Container.

Uniform Title

Suddenly, last summer (Motion picture)
Suddenly, last summer (Motion picture). Spanish
Suddenly, last summer (Motion picture). Portuguese

Subject

Genre/Form

Fiction films.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films – United States.
Feature films – Great Britain.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.

Note

Special features include: Production notes ; video photo montage ; vintage advertising ; talent files not rated or closed captioned.
Originally released as a motion picture in Dec. 1959 ; ©1960, held by Horizon Pictures (G.B.).
Adapted from the play "Suddenly last summer" by Tennessee Williams.

Credits (note)

Production designer, Oliver Messel ; music composed by Buxton Orr & Malcolm Arnold, conducted by Buxton Orr ; director of photography, Jack Hildyard ; editor, Thomas G. Stanford.

Performer (note)

Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond, Mavis Villiers, Joan Young, Patricia Marmont, Maria Britneva, David Cameron.

Audience (note)

MPAA: Not rated ; Canadian Home Video rating: PG

System Details (note)

DVD, NTSC, widescreen format (aspect ratio 2.40:1); Dolby digital monaural.

Language (note)

English, dubbed Spanish or dubbed Portuguese dialogue with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Call Number

NCOX 2243

ISBN

0767847490

LCCN

043396047525

OCLC

155850460

Title

Suddenly, last summer / Columbia ; Sam Spiegel presents ; screenplay by Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams ; a Horizon Pictures (G.B.) Limited production in association with Academy Pictures and Camp Films ; produced by Sam Speigel ; directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Publisher

Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2006]

Country of Producing Entity

United States Great Britain naf

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Physical Medium

4 3/4 in. stamping rda

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD video region 1

System Details

DVD, NTSC, widescreen format (aspect ratio 2.40:1); Dolby digital monaural.

Cast

Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn, Albert Dekker, Mercedes McCambridge, Gary Raymond, Mavis Villiers, Joan Young, Patricia Marmont, Maria Britneva, David Cameron.

Credits

Production designer, Oliver Messel ; music composed by Buxton Orr & Malcolm Arnold, conducted by Buxton Orr ; director of photography, Jack Hildyard ; editor, Thomas G. Stanford.

Audience

MPAA: Not rated ; Canadian Home Video rating: PG

Language

English, dubbed Spanish or dubbed Portuguese dialogue with optional subtitles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

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Added Author

Mankiewicz, Joseph L., film director.

Spiegel, Sam, film producer.

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012, screenwriter.

Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011, actor.

Clift, Montgomery, actor.

Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003, actor.

Dekker, Albert, 1905-1968, actor.

McCambridge, Mercedes, actor.

Raymond, Gary, 1935- actor.

Villiers, Mavis, 1911-1976, actor.

Young, Joan, 1903-1984, actor.

Orr, Buxton, composer.

Arnold, Malcolm, composer.

Hildyard, Jack, director of photography.

Stanford, Thomas (Thomas G.), editor of moving image work.

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Suddenly last summer.

Horizon Pictures (G.B.), production company.

Academy Pictures, production company.

Camp Films, production company

Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm), publisher.

Added Title

Container of (work): Suddenly, last summer (Motion picture)

Container of (expression): Suddenly, last summer (Motion picture). Spanish

Container of (expression): Suddenly, last summer (Motion picture). Portuguese

Other Standard Identifier

043396047525

Publisher No.

04752 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Research Call Number

NCOX 2243

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