Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writers: Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars, 4 wins & 7 nominations total
Duration: 1h 54m
Wealthy harridan Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn) attempts to bribe Dr. John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans, Louisiana mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds, into lobotomizing her niece, Catherine Holly (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), to prevent the girl from defiling the memory of her cousin, Violet's poet son Sebastian (Julián Ugarte). Catherine has been babbling obscenely about Sebastian's mysterious death that she witnessed while they were vacationing together in Spain the previous summer.
A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
