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The Fugitive Kind

6.9

Released April 14, 1960Runtime 1h 59min

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

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Pennebaker Productions

United Artists

Production Countries

United States of America

Finances

Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Profit/Loss: $0

Stream

Rent

Buy

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Cast

Marlon BrandoValentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier

Anna MagnaniLady Torrance

Joanne WoodwardCarol Cutrere

Victor JoryJabe Torrance

Maureen StapletonVee Talbot

R.G. ArmstrongSheriff Jordan Talbott

Emory RichardsonUncle Pleasant, the Conjure Man

Madame SpivyRuby Lightfoot

Sally GracieDolly Hamma

Lucille BensonBeulah Binnings

John BaragreyDavid Cutrere

Virgilia ChewNurse Porter

Ben Yaffee'Dog' Hamma

Joe Brown Jr.'Pee Wee' Binnings

Mary Perry

Neil Harrison

Janice MarsGas Station Attendant's Wife

Crew

Sidney LumetDirector

Charles H. MaguireAssistant Director

Meade RobertsScreenplay

Tennessee WilliamsScreenplay

Tennessee WilliamsOriginal Film Writer

Richard ShepherdProducer

Martin JurowProducer

George JustinAssociate Producer

Steve BonoProduction Manager

Frank L. ThompsonCostume Supervisor

Boris KaufmanDirector of Photography

Richard SylbertArt Direction

Carl LernerEditor

Kenyon HopkinsMusic

Gene CallahanSet Decoration

Larry DuranStunts

Phil RhodesMakeup Artist

Robert JirasMakeup Artist

Philip GleasonSound Recordist

Mary RocheHairstylist

James A. GleasonSound Recordist

Saul MidwallCamera Operator

Harold PosnerAssistant Camera

Frank L. ThompsonCostume Design

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Reviews

Val is a young "party gigalo" that is sick of his life after having to pawn his most prized possession. His guitar given him by the "great blues player "Lead Belly". The movies opening scene is showing Val in jail going before a judge that's just not pleased to see his type. After Val promises to l...

<em>'The Fugitive Kind'</em> is just a bit too slow for me, I almost did enjoy it mind you. Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani are the stars and I did buy into their relationship by the conclusion; which, by the way, goes from 0 to 60 real quick! It is a solid ending though. What precedes just meand...