Wealthy New Orleans widow Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn) promises a hefty contribution to the clinic of a young surgeon (Montgomery Clift) under one condition-he must perform a lobotomy on her supposedly insane niece, Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor). But the doctor soon realizes that Catherine may not be mad at all, and instead holds a secret regarding the death of Mrs. Venable's son. Adapted by Gore Vidal from Tennessee Williams's play, Suddenly, Last Summer is Southern Gothic at its most exhilarating and gloriously overheated. 

Shown in conjunction with the film course All About Elegance: The Films of Joseph Mankiewicz, this screening will be introduced by the course's instructor, Jennifer Fleeger, Ph.D.