The Fugitive Kind
starring: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory
directed by: Sidney Lumet
directed by: Sidney Lumet
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Oscar ® winners Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront) Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo) Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) and Maureen Stapleton (Reds) lead the stellar cast of this Southern Gothic "sizzler" (Los Angeles Times) based on the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending. Thanks to "brilliant" (The Film Daily) performances The Fugitive Kind "sets one's senses to throbbing" (The New York Times). Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier (Brando) is a handsome drifter with a guitar and a past. Taking a job as a store clerk in Two Rivers Mississippi his strong and silent demeanor attracts not only the local party girl (Woodward) but also the shopkeeper's exotic wife (Magnani). Soon this explosive love triangle will ignite a powder keg of fury that could rock this small town to its very core. System Requirements: Running Time 121 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 027616125378 Manufacturer No: 12537
Oscar ® winners Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront) Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo) Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) and Maureen Stapleton (Reds) lead the stellar cast of this Southern Gothic "sizzler" (Los Angeles Times) based on the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending. Thanks to "brilliant" (The Film Daily) performances The Fugitive Kind "sets one's senses to throbbing" (The New York Times). Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier (Brando) is a handsome drifter with a guitar and a past. Taking a job as a store clerk in Two Rivers Mississippi his strong and silent demeanor attracts not only the local party girl (Woodward) but also the shopkeeper's exotic wife (Magnani). Soon this explosive love triangle will ignite a powder keg of fury that could rock this small town to its very core. System Requirements: Running Time 121 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 027616125378 Manufacturer No: 12537
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- If there was a moral to this story...
In The Fugitive Kind, Tennessee Williams gave us a conflict between fugitives from morality and bigots.For whom would you pull?
Williams mishandled Anna Magnani.I would have given a different explanation - or no explanation at all - for the presence of "Lady Torrance" in Two River County, Louisiana. "Daughter of an Italian wine maker" explained Magnani's accent, but Two River County seemed more suited for whisky distilleries than for "Italian wine gardens."
Did the ... Read More
Rating: - Extraordinary
This film is absolutely impecable. Throughout the film,Brando and Anna Magnani are superb actors. It a duel. what I find really wonderful is that all the conversations between the two of them, that are intimate, their voices are kept in a mezzo tono.It gives really the atmosphere of complicity and sensuality thatis required by the author of the play. The climate of intolerance in a small town in the USA is perfectly depicted, and the counterpoint, Joanne Woodward is remarkable. I recommend this ... Read More
Rating: - "GREAT DRAMA AND TENSION"
MARLON BRANDO,ANNA MAGNANI,AND JOANNE WOODWARD,3 OF THE GREATEST ACTORS OF THAT TIME
TOGETHER IN AN ADAPTATION OF THE PLAY,"ORPHEUS DESCENDING". THE SUPPORTING CAST;MAUREEN
STAPLETON,VICTOR JORY,R.G.ARMSTRONG + THE BIT PLAYERS ARE EXCELLENT. KENYON HOPKINS'
MUSIC SCORE IS A HAUNTING LITTLE PIECE OF WORK. LEONARD MALTIN'S BOOK IS WRONG IN SAYING THAT
THE STORY GO'S NO WHERE. A SLICE OF LIFE ALWAYS HAS A BEGINNING,MIDDLE AND AN END.
A DRIFTER WANTS TO GO STRAIGHT, BUT THERE ... Read More
Rating: - A TRUE SOUTHERN GOTHIC CLASSIC FROM THE PEN OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS.....
MIRIAM HOPKINS PERFORMED THE STARRING ROLE ON LIVE STAGE, IN WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF THIS MOVIE, BATTLE OF ANGELS IN 1941. THIS WAS THE FIRST PUBLICLY PRODUCED PLAY (IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS) BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS.
THIS FIRST STAGE PRODUCTION DID NOT MEET WITH ANY SUCCESS, AND WAS PLAGUED WITH PROBLEMS, ESPECIALLY THE FIRE SCENE AT THE END, THE THEATER ACTUALLY CAUGHT FIRE, AND THE AUDIENCE HAD TO FLEE FROM THE THEATER. LUCKILY, SUCH IS NOT THE CASE WITH MOVIES, AS THE SCENE CAN BE ... Read More
Rating: 
- Cryptic fire
It's sort of like Tennesee Williams decided Streetcar Named Desire was just too happy, so he wrote something even more depressing, and cryptic. But terrific acting from all involved makes this movie a must see for film buffs. This movie is on fire with emotion.
- If there was a moral to this story...In The Fugitive Kind, Tennessee Williams gave us a conflict between fugitives from morality and bigots.For whom would you pull?
Williams mishandled Anna Magnani.I would have given a different explanation - or no explanation at all - for the presence of "Lady Torrance" in Two River County, Louisiana. "Daughter of an Italian wine maker" explained Magnani's accent, but Two River County seemed more suited for whisky distilleries than for "Italian wine gardens."
Did the ... Read More
- ExtraordinaryThis film is absolutely impecable. Throughout the film,Brando and Anna Magnani are superb actors. It a duel. what I find really wonderful is that all the conversations between the two of them, that are intimate, their voices are kept in a mezzo tono.It gives really the atmosphere of complicity and sensuality thatis required by the author of the play. The climate of intolerance in a small town in the USA is perfectly depicted, and the counterpoint, Joanne Woodward is remarkable. I recommend this ... Read More
- "GREAT DRAMA AND TENSION"MARLON BRANDO,ANNA MAGNANI,AND JOANNE WOODWARD,3 OF THE GREATEST ACTORS OF THAT TIME
TOGETHER IN AN ADAPTATION OF THE PLAY,"ORPHEUS DESCENDING". THE SUPPORTING CAST;MAUREEN
STAPLETON,VICTOR JORY,R.G.ARMSTRONG + THE BIT PLAYERS ARE EXCELLENT. KENYON HOPKINS'
MUSIC SCORE IS A HAUNTING LITTLE PIECE OF WORK. LEONARD MALTIN'S BOOK IS WRONG IN SAYING THAT
THE STORY GO'S NO WHERE. A SLICE OF LIFE ALWAYS HAS A BEGINNING,MIDDLE AND AN END.
A DRIFTER WANTS TO GO STRAIGHT, BUT THERE ... Read More
- A TRUE SOUTHERN GOTHIC CLASSIC FROM THE PEN OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS.....MIRIAM HOPKINS PERFORMED THE STARRING ROLE ON LIVE STAGE, IN WHAT WAS THE ORIGINAL TITLE OF THIS MOVIE, BATTLE OF ANGELS IN 1941. THIS WAS THE FIRST PUBLICLY PRODUCED PLAY (IN BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS) BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS.
THIS FIRST STAGE PRODUCTION DID NOT MEET WITH ANY SUCCESS, AND WAS PLAGUED WITH PROBLEMS, ESPECIALLY THE FIRE SCENE AT THE END, THE THEATER ACTUALLY CAUGHT FIRE, AND THE AUDIENCE HAD TO FLEE FROM THE THEATER. LUCKILY, SUCH IS NOT THE CASE WITH MOVIES, AS THE SCENE CAN BE ... Read More
- Cryptic fireIt's sort of like Tennesee Williams decided Streetcar Named Desire was just too happy, so he wrote something even more depressing, and cryptic. But terrific acting from all involved makes this movie a must see for film buffs. This movie is on fire with emotion.
