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The Fugitive Kind

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The Fugitive Kind
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NR,2hrs 2min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Release:
1960
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward  ...more
Synopsis: Fugitive Kind began life as Battle of Angels, a never-produced 1939 play by a young Tennessee Williams. Nearly 20 years later, Williams refined this rough-hewn theatrical effort into Orpheus Descending, which enjoyed a respectable Broadway run. The renamed film version stars Marlon Brando as Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter who wanders into a deliciously Williamsesque Mississippi town. Here he becomes involved in the problems of alcoholic Carole Cutrere (Joanne Woodward) and ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
The Fugitive Kind finds Marlon Brando at his slush-mouthed best, in a landscape that's pure Tennessee Williams -- appropriate, since the celebrated playwright wrote the screenplay. Three years after his breakthrough direction of Twelve Angry Men (1957), Sidney Lumet helms this involving tale of a reforming petty criminal (Brando) who quickly runs afoul of the local citizenry in rural Mississippi, in ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Marlon Brando
Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier
Anna Magnani
Lady Torrance
Joanne Woodward
Carole Cutrere
Maureen Stapleton
Vee Talbott
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