The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.

Featuring a perfect combo of talents: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn—a collaboration only possible in Hollywood’s golden age. Joseph L. Mankiewicz realizes Tennessee Williams’ most scandalous play as a gothic psychosexual melodrama with great complexity and ambiguity to match.