The Fugitive Kind (1959)

Directed by

Sidney Lumet

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 119 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A drifter with a troubled past arrives in a small Southern town and gets involved with a passionate older woman trapped in a loveless marriage. Their connection stirs up gossip and danger from the townspeople.

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What happens

The Fugitive Kind is a 1960 American drama film starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, and Joanne Woodward, directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Meade Roberts and Tennessee Williams was based on the latter's 1957 play Orpheus Descending, itself a revision of his 1940 work Battle of Angels, which closed after its Boston tryout. Frank Thompson designed the costumes for the film. Despite being set in the Deep South, the United Artists release was filmed in Milton, New York. At the 1960 San Sebastián International Film Festival, it won the Silver Seashell for Sidney Lumet and the Zulueta Prize for Best Actress for Joanne Woodward. The film is available on videotape and DVD. A two-disc DVD edition by The Criterion Collection was released in April 2010. It was upgraded to Blu-Ray in January 2020 and includes three one-act plays by Williams (among them This Property Is Condemned, also later adapted for the screen) performed on NBC television network also directed by Lumet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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