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May 22, 2015 · The Fugitive Kind, 1959. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Maureen Stapleton and Joanne Woodward. SYNOPSIS: Val Xavier is on the run, and stumbling into a small town ...
Tragic, operatic and signature Tennessee Williams, The Fugitive Kind remains a forgotten gem of American cinema. Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 10, 2020. If you're familiar with ...
The Fugitive Kind is a 1960 American drama film starring Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani, and 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 unproduced 1940 work Battle of Angels. Despite being set in the Deep South, the United ...
Apr 26, 2010 · The Fugitive Kind is not talked about too much today, but it was a big production for its time. To start with, Brando had won a contract of one million dollars to do the picture. Next, the teaming with Magnani was hailed as a bold chemical experiment—though the talk only made Magnani more nervous. As for Brando, his life was full of troubles: he had a bitter child custody suit pending with ...
The Fugitive Kind. Available on Pluto TV. In this Tennessee Williams masterpiece, Marlon Brando is superb as a paradoxical drifter drawn into the desperate lives of two passionate women, Maureen Stapleton and Joanne Woodward, in a small Mississippi town. Drama 1959 1 hr 59 min.
The Fugitive Kind (1960) This is one of those great movies that slips its way into that big gap between the great Hollywood Golden Age to the great New Hollywood of the late 1960s. An awful lot of films from the period between (1955-65) are weak or even downright bad, big budgets and all.
The Fugitive Kind is probably Marlon Brando's least effective collaboration with Tennessee Williams. A funky little melodrama (with its own full share of unintentional laughs), a brooding Brando is left adrift as a kind of snakeskin Elvis Presley variation. But without the occasional musical interlude to break things up.
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