The fugitive kind / a United Artists release ; screenplay by Tennessee Williams and Meade Roberts ; produced by Martin Jurow and Richard A. Shepherd ; directed by Sidney Lumet.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (13 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory, R.G. Armstrong, John Baragrey. Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1960. Based on the play "Orpheus descending" by Tennessee Williams. Wide screen (1.66:1). 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 Williams's work in Hollywood and The fugitive kind ; in booklet, an essay by film critic David Thomson.
Summary:
Valentine Xavier leaves the entertainment world in New Orleans after he has one too many encounters with the law. A rainstorm leaves him stranded in a small town in Missipssippi, where his past comes back to haunt him and he attracts two women.
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