The Fugitive Kind
feature film, romantic drama, USA, 1960
DIRECTED BY: Sidney Lumet
CAST:
Marlon Brando (Valentine Xavier),
Joanne Woodward (Carol Cutrere),
Anna Magnani (Lady Torrance),
Maureen Stapleton (Vee),
Victor Jory (Jabe M. Torrance),
R.G. Armstrong
SCRIPT:
Meade Roberts,
Tennessee Williams (based on his own play)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Boris Kaufman
MUSIC:
Kenyon Hopkins
EDITING:
Carl Lerner
Synopsis:
Valentine Xavier is a drifter who appears one day in a southern town and finds work in a store. His arrival stirs up the local women, all of whom want him for themselves: Lady Torrance, the store owner, whose husband is on his deathbed; Carol Cutrere, an alcoholic nymphomaniac; and housewife Vee Talbot, whose husband is the sheriff.
b/w, 119'