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Fugitive Kind (The)
- Director: Sidney Lumet
- Writer: Tennessee Williams
- Producer: Martin Jurow; George Justin
CGiii Comment
More overwrought nonsense from the pen of Williams...
Too long, too embroiled in misery to be enjoyable.
Turgid melodrama.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence, a sex-starved woman whose husband Jabe M. Torrance is dying of cancer upstairs. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family, who covets his snakeskin jacket as much as his body and tries to seduce him in the cemetery. Val is more attracted to the mature Lady and gets her pregnant.
Cast & Characters
Marlon Brando as Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier;
Anna Magnani as Lady Torrance;
Joanne Woodward as Carol Cutrere;
Maureen Stapleton as Vee Talbot;
Victor Jory as Jabe M. Torrance;
R.G. Armstrong as Sheriff Jordan Talbott;
Emory Richardson as Uncle Pleasant, the Conjure Man;
Madame Spivy as Ruby Lightfoot;
Sally Gracie as Dolly Hamma;
Lucille Benson as Beulah Binnings;
John Baragrey as David Cutrere;
Ben Yaffee as 'Dog' Hamma;
Joe Brown Jr. as 'Pee Wee' Binnings;
Virgilia Chew as Nurse Porter;
Frank Borgman as Gas Station Attendant