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Great Performances: Season 21, Episode 10Suddenly, Last Summer (6 Jan. 1993)Director:Richard EyreWriter:Tennessee Williams (play) |
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Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy.
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Gillian Raine | ... |
Miss Foxhill
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George Holly
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Moira Redmond | ... |
Mrs. Holly
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C.P. Wilson | ... |
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Rosaleen Linehan | ... |
Sister Felicity
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6 January 1993 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UKCompany Credits
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Violet Venable: So shines a good deed in a naughty world, Dr. Sugar.
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I have a copy of this version of "Suddenly Last Summer" that I taped (luckily) during the broadcast on "Great Performances" in 1993. The picture quality is very fuzzy, which seems to have been a part of the original broadcast. This is even more obvious in these days of DVD, where we are all so used to excellent visuals. I have tried to collect ALL filmed presentations and soundtracks of Tennessee Williams plays, and I don't like to compare the various versions due to the fact that the original film versions faced great restrictions because of censorship, given the stricter morals of those days. The older versions do the best that they were allowed to do, in the context of the prevailing morality under which they were produced. This PBS "Great Performances" version is wonderful- from the opening credits shots of Venus Fly Traps capturing insects in Sebastian's garden to the closing credits depicting the garden again. After the screening, there is a brief clip from a 1976 interview with Tennessee explaining how an incident between his sister and mother inspired the dialogue written for the play. There is no mention of an available video for the presentation, as is so common these days for most PBS productions, so I am assuming that this version has never been released on any home video format. The closing credits state that this is "A BBC co-production with Thirteen/WNET" and gives the date 1992. There is a chance that this was released on video in the UK, but I have not found any mention of such. There is no credit given for soundtrack music or any release as well.