2 things cannot be denied with the appearance of this film, one is that Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most beautiful women in the world and 2, that every performance Katherine Hepburn gives is unforgettable.
The story centres around Catherine (Taylor) who is supposedly insane and known for making up bizarre stories about the people in her life. On holiday with her cousin Sebastian he dies suddenly and she goes 'mad', and Sebastian's mother Violet ( Hepburn) is convinced that Catherine had evil and crazy intentions towards her son.
Monty Clift is the doctor called in by Violet to 'operate' on Catherine and dissolve her mania, but soon it becomes a case of him fighting on her behalf for her sanity.
Not one of Clift's better performances, and I can't say that Hepburn's was particularly amazing either, but as I mentioned above it was definitely unforgettable.
The hidden meanings in this film are huge and really to understand it fully you would need to watch it more than once to pick up on then, but for me I'm happy to watch it once and move on; far to many excellent movies out there.
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