The Fugitive Kind [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Fugitive Kind [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Sidney Lumet, José Martínez Suárez Cast: Kenyon Hopkins
Kenyon Hopkins
, Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
, Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani
Sidney Lumet
The Fugitive Kind [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Fugitive Kind [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Sidney Lumet, José Martínez Suárez Cast: Kenyon Hopkins
Kenyon Hopkins
, Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
, Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani
Sidney Lumet

Blu-ray (Black & White / Wide Screen)

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Overview

Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 play by a young Tennessee Williams. Nearly 20 years later, Williams refined this rough-hewn theatrical effort into Orpheus Descending, which enjoyed a respectable Broadway run. The renamed film version stars Marlon Brando as Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter who wanders into a deliciously Williamsesque Mississippi town. Here he becomes involved in the problems of alcoholic Carole Cutrere (Joanne Woodward) and unhappily married Lady Torrence (Anna Magnani) and also runs afoul of Torrence's vicious husband (Victor Jory). Sexual symbolism abounds in this tempestuous drama, which offers Brando at his most inscrutable and Magnani at her earthiest. Maureen Stapleton, in real life one of Brando's best friends and severest critics, plays an avant-garde artist.

Product Details

Release Date: 01/14/2020
UPC: 0715515240017
Original Release: 1960
Rating: NR
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Presentation: [B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono]
Language: English
Time: 2:01:00
Sales rank: 11,407

Special Features

Interview from 2009 with Lumet; Three Plays, by Tennessee Williams, an hour-long 1958 television presentation of one-act plays, directed by Lumet and starring Ben Gazzara and Lee Grant, among others; Program from 2010 discussing William's work in Hollywood and The Fugitive Kind; SDH subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Marlon Brando Actor
Anna Magnani Actor
Joanne Woodward Actor
Maureen Stapleton Actor
Victor Jory Jabe Torrance
R.G. Armstrong Sheriff Talbott
Emory Richardson Uncle Pleasant
Madame Spivy Ruby Lightfoot
Sally Gracie Dolly Hamma
Lucille Benson Beulah Binnings
John Baragrey David Cutrere
Ben Yaffee Dog Hamma
Joe Brown Jr. Pee Wee Binnings
Virgilia Chew Nurse Porter
Frank Borgman Gas Station Attendant
Janice Mars Attendant's Wife
Mary Perry Actor
Debbie Lynch Lonely Girl
Jeanne Barr Actor

Technical Credits
Martin Jurow Producer
Sidney Lumet Director
Richard Shepherd Producer
José Martínez Suárez Director
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