SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1960) 30371 Movie Poster Italian 79x55 Elizabeth Taylor Montgomery Clift Kataherine Hepburn Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Original Italian Four Foglio Poster (79x55) Re-release from the 1960s Very Good Plus to Fine Folded

Original Columbia Pictures Italian Four-Foglio Poster (79x55) for the Joseph L. Mankiewicz dramatic classic, SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959) starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift. This poster is from a re-release of the 1960s. Based on a play by the very successful Broadway icon Tennessee Williams, the screenplay was skillfully adapted by Gore Vidal. Set in New Orleans in 1937, Hepburn plays a lady of means who is mourning the loss of her son. She wants to donate a million dollars to the hospital where Clift is a doctor if he will perform a lobotomy on her niece Taylor. The young woman seems to be totally traumatized by what she witnessed last summer. Tennessee Williams never forgave his own mother for letting his sister Rose have a lobotomy to "cure" her anxiety problems. The whole story turns on the character of Hepburn's flamboyant son Sebastian, but you never see his face or hear his voice. But something horribly sinister is shown in Taylor's flashbacks. He is supposed to have died of a heart attack, but the audience finally discovers that it was a horribly cruel case of gay bashing. Both Taylor and Hepburn were nominated for Oscars. It was the eighth nomination for Hepburn and the third nomination for Taylor. This poster was used in an Italian cinema, and dates from the first release in Italy MovieArt Original Film Posters in Austin, Texas guarantees that this poster is authentic.

Dame Elizabeth Taylor - Actor
Montgomery Clift - Actor
Katharine Hepburn - Actor
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ - Director
Albert Dekker - Actor
Mercedes McCambridge - Actor
Gary Raymond - Actor
Eddie Fisher - Actor
GORE VIDAL - Actor