The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind

🎞️ Movie 119 min US
โ˜… 7.0 /10 1960

With a guitar and a snake skin jacket he drifted out of the rain...and into the lives of these two women...

Having fled New Orleans to avoid arrest, the undeniably alluring Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier (Val), a trouble-prone guitar-playing drifter, wanders into a small Mississippi town aiming to go straight and lead a quiet, simple life. He gets a job in the dry goods store owned by a sexually-frustrated middle-aged woman named Lady Torrence, whose sadistic elderly husband, Jabe, is dying. With an obscure past and passions of her own, Lady finds herself attracted to Val, pulsating with passion anew, as he presents an arousing antidote to her bitter marriage and small-town hum-drum life, but also vying for Val's attention are the alcoholic, sex-crazed Carol Cutrere and the unhappily-married Vee Talbot. Each bring their share of problems into Val's plans, himself equally tempted by these women though he succumbs to the charms of Lady. But the jealous Jabe is friends with Sheriff Talbot, who's also Vee's wife - things can't possibly end well for Val and Lady. The screenplay by Meade Roberts and Tennessee Williams is based on Williams' own 1957 play 'Orpheus Descending'.

Cast

Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
Valentine Xavier
Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward
Carol Cutrere
Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani
Lady Torrance
Maureen Stapleton
Maureen Stapleton
Vee Talbot
Victor Jory
Victor Jory
Jabe Torrance
R.G. Armstrong
R.G. Armstrong
Sheriff Jordan Talbot
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Virgilia Chew
Nurse Porter
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Ben Yaffee
'Dog' Hamma
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Joe Brown Jr.
'Pee Wee' Binnings
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Mary Perry
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Kenyon Hopkins
Composer
Boris Kaufman
Boris Kaufman
Cinematographer

๐ŸŽฌ Videos

The Fugitive Kind (1960) - The Criterion Collection
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The Fugitive Kind (1960) - The Criterion Collection