Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER Katharine Hepburn Elizabeth Taylor violent death abroad Montgomery Clift Albert Dekker Mercedes MacCambridge ■ Grief has turned Katharine Hepburn into an elegant recluse. She lives in a mansion in New Orleans surrounded by memories of her brilliant son, Sebastian, who died suddenly last summer in Italy. With him when he died was her niece Elizabeth Taylor. Now Elizabeth is in a sanitarium, apparently insane. Miss Hepburn has asked young psychiatrist, Montgomery Clift, to perform a frontal lobotomy on Elizabeth in a last attempt to relieve her misery (a lobotomy is a brain operation that kills the disease but renders the patient more or less infantile). As payment Miss Hepburn offers to build a hospital for Clift and his superior, Albert Dekker. It's not that a lobotomy is illegal, it's that the patient must be really hopeless to undergo it. Clift, being an ethical physician, wants to be sure. The trouble is that Elizabeth, despite the fact that she was badly shocked by her cousin Sebastian's death and overwrought by being confined to a sanitarium, is more or less sane. However, Miss Hepburn is insistent, Albert Dekker wants his hospital and Montgomery Clift must make up his mind. As the mystery of Sebastian's horrible death unfolds, it's much easier for Clift to separate the insane from the merely neurotic. The movie is beautifully written, exotically imaginative, and essentially the story of a twisted relationship between a mother and her son. — Columbia. NEVER SO FEW in the Burmese hills Frank Sinatra Gina Lollobrigida Peter Lawford Steve McQueen Paul Henreid ■ Captain Frank Sinatra's men do more with less than any other troops in World War II. They are a small group of Allied soldiers, stationed in the hills of Burma. No medical supplies, no doctor (until Peter Lawford is drafted), no artillery support, not even orders. They just keep killing Japanese who nightly raid the camp. Well, Sinatra, being a rugged individualist, is very successful at the sport. However, he must necessarily take a great deal into his own hands and this is what gets him into trouble with the higher-ups. When one of his Burmese soldiers is mortally wounded Sinatra kills him rather than prolong his death agony. When a Chinese convoy is slaughtered by other Chinese (working for War Lords) Sinatra leads an unauthorized raid into bandit headquarters. This provokes an international incident and Sinatra faces hanging by his own government (us). Also, in Burma proper, is Gina Lollobrigida, looking luscious as the constant companion and houseguest of rich Paul Henreid. She gives Sinatra the cold shoulder (once she gives it to him from the bathtub) but it's obviously love. They come from different worlds, she keeps telling him. Never mind. Sinatra is an old hand at making it all one world. This movie hops rapidly along to its exciting climax. Metrocolor, MGM. /1mdM: i/tfmafe %nma^t ptxM&nA 1. Germicidal protection! Norforms are safer and surer than ever! A highly perfected new formula releases antiseptic and germicidal ingredients right in the vaginal tract. The exclusive new base melts at body temperature, forming a powerful protective film that permits long-lasting action. Will not harm delicate tissues. 2. Deodorant protection! Norforms were tested in a hospital clinic and found to be more effective than anything it had ever used. Norforms are deodorant — they eliminate (rather than cover up) embarrassing odors, vet have no "medicine" or "disinfectant'" odor themselves. 3. Convenience! These small vaginal suppositories are so easy and convenient to use. Just insert --no apparatus, miximj or measuring. They're <;reaseless and they keep in anv c limate. Your drug | \ gist has them in boxes of 12 and 24. Also available in Canada. Same reliable product — new gold and white package informative Norforms Norwich Phar Please send m. booklet, in a p MORWICH PRODUCT