The Fugitive Kind

1960 6.8 (109 votes) 1h 59m

Genres

Romance Drama

Production Companies

Pennebaker Productions
United Artists

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

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Sidney Lumet

Director of Photography: Boris Kaufman

Producer: Richard Shepherd, Martin Jurow

Screenplay: Meade Roberts, Tennessee Williams

Top Cast

Marlon Brando

Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier

Anna Magnani

Lady Torrance

Joanne Woodward

Carol Cutrere

Victor Jory

Jabe Torrance

Maureen Stapleton

Vee Talbot

R.G. Armstrong

Sheriff Jordan Talbott

Emory Richardson

Uncle Pleasant, the Conjure Man

Madame Spivy

Ruby Lightfoot

Videos

The Fugitive Kind (1960) - The Criterion Collection

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