The Fugitive Kind (1960)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Writers:

Tennessee Williams (play)
Tennessee Williams (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

May 1960 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

...and now the screen is struck by lightning !

Plot:

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence...

Plot Keywords:

Jacket | Cemetery | Small Town | Drifter | Rebellion

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Marlon Brando	...	Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
Joanne Woodward	...	Carol Cutrere
Anna Magnani	...	Lady Torrance
Maureen Stapleton	...	Vee Talbot
Victor Jory	...	Jabe M. Torrance
R.G. Armstrong	...	Sheriff Jordan Talbot
Virgilia Chew	...	Nurse Porter
Madame Spivy	...	Ruby Lightfoot
Ben Yaffee	...	Dog Hamma
Joe Brown Jr.	...	Pee Wee Binnings
John Baragrey	...	David Cutrere
Sally Gracie	...	Dolly Hamma
Lucille Benson	...	Beulah Binnings
Emory Richardson	...	Uncle Pleasant
Frank Borgman	...	Gas Station Attendant

Runtime:

119 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | Brazil:14 | Australia:M (original rating) | Australia:PG (alternate rating) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved

Filming Locations:

Milton, New York, USA

Company:

Pennebaker Productions

Trivia:

"Battle of Angels", the original version of Tennesse Williams play "Orpheus Descending" that the movie is based on, flopped in Boston in 1940 and did not make it to Broadway. The 1957 Broadway production of the reworked play, starring Cliff Robertson and Maureen Stapleton as Val and Lady Torrance, also was a flop. It wasn't until the 1989 revival starring Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Torrance that the play was a success on Broadway.

Quotes:

Carol Cutrere: Juking? Oh! Well, that's when you get in a car, which is preferably open in any kind of weather. And then you drink a little bit and you drive a little bit, and then you stop and you dance a little bit with a jukebox. And then you drink a little bit more and you drive a little bit more, you stop and you dance a little bit more to another juke box! And then you stop dancing and you just drink and you drive. And then, you stop driving.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994) (TV)

Superb movie with great performances

This picture takes Tenneesse Williams play Orpheus Descending about Val Xavier(Marlon Brando),a drifter man who plays a guitar(He is the rebel type of character who have in all of the Williams plays). Anna Magnani is great too but Marlon steals the show.Recommended Brando's character is like The Wild One without a motorcycle and a kind of Stan Kowalski that don't beat girls, he starts an affair with an older lady(Magnani),an romance that can be end in a tragedy. This is based in a Williams less know play, not good as Streetcar or Suddenly Last Summer, but is a great piece of cinema.

i would give **** of *****