The Fugitive Kind
Four Oscar-winning actors—Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, and Maureen Stapleton—shine in this enthralling film, which also brings together the legendary talents of director Sidney Lumet and writer Tennessee Williams. A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Brando is Val Xavier, a drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a small-town southern variety store run by the married, sexually frustrated Lady Torrance (Magnani), who proves as much a temptation for Val as does local wild child Carol Cutrere (Woodward). Lumet captures the intense, fearless performances and Williams’s hot-blooded storytelling and social critique with his customary restraint, resulting in a drama of uncommon sophistication and craft.
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- High-definition digital restoration, approved by director Sidney Lumet, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic David Thomson
Cover by Ron Lesser
Director-Approved Special Edition Features
- High-definition digital restoration, approved by director Sidney Lumet, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by film critic David Thomson
Cover by Ron Lesser
Cast
- Marlon Brando
- Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier
- Anna Magnani
- Lady Torrance
- Joanne Woodward
- Carol Cutrere
- Maureen Stapleton
- Vee Talbot
- Victor Jory
- Jabe Torrance
- R. G. Armstrong
- Sheriff Jordan Talbot
- John Baragrey
- David Cutrere
- Virgilia Chew
- Nurse Porter
- Sally Gracie
- Dolly Hamma
- Ben Yaffee
- Dog Hamma
- Lucille Benson
- Beulah Binnings
- Joe Brown Jr.
- Pee-Wee
- Emory Richardson
- Uncle Pleasant
- Nell Harrison
- Old maid
- Mary Perry
- Old maid
- Madame Spivy
- Ruby
- Janice Mars
- Janie
Credits
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Producer
- Martin Jurow
- Producer
- Richard A. Shepherd
- Screenplay
- Tennessee Williams
- Screenplay
- Meade Roberts
- Based on the play Orpheus Descending by
- Tennessee Williams
- Director of photography
- Boris Kaufman
- Original music
- Kenyon Hopkins
- Art direction
- Richard Sylbert
- Editor
- Carl Lerner
- Associate producer
- George Justin
- Assistant director
- Charles H. Maguire
- Sound
- James Gleason
- Camera operator
- Saul Midwall
- Costume designer
- Frank Thompson
- Wardrobe
- George Newman
- Wardrobe
- Flo Transfield
- Makeup
- Robert Jiras
- Makeup
- Philip Rhodes
- Hairstylist
- Mary Roche
- Set decoration
- Eugene Callahan
- Set photographer
- Muky Munkacsi
A scene from The Fugitive Kind
