We're Having a Heat Wave. Share movies that turned the heat on their characters and link back here at the Bumbles.Cool Hand Luke. I don't know what state prison camp Luke was sent to, but it was somewhere south where it never, ever cold. Or even cool. Just thinking about that scene where the chain-gang boys pave the road under the blistering sun exhausts me!
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ummer.This movie, written by Tennessee Williams, is the very definition of "crazy from the heat." Every year, brilliant Sebastian would go on holiday and compose a critically-acclaimed poem. Usually he took his charming, aristocratic mother, Violet (Katharine Hepburn). But suddenly, last summer, he invited his beautiful cousin, Cathy (Elizabeth Taylor) instead. During that vacation to the tropics, Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances and Cathy's account of what happened on the beach is so gothic and horrible and scandalous that Violet wants her lobotomized to keep her quiet and preserve Sebastian's reputation. It also gave us this iconic shot of Liz in a white bathing suit.
I'll have to check out that Liz Taylor movie...if for only to extend her lovely memory in the minds of avid movie fans :)
ReplyDeleteI bet that bathing suit was the talk of the town when the movie came out.
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I don't know the Liz movie, I'll have to check it out.
ReplyDeleteGreat choices, although I'm not fond of older movies such as this, even though I know they're classics...you're descriptions of them just might make me give in ;)
ReplyDeleteHow could I not have seen the secon one. Off yo ad it to my netflix queue.
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