The Fugitive Kind

Sidney Lumet (director)
Tennessee Williams (novel, screenplay)
Meade Roberts (screenwriter)
Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward (starring)

N.p. Pennebaker Productions, Circa 1960. Vintage double weight reference photograph of Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, Sydney Lumet, and cinematographer Boris Kaufman on the set of the 1960 film.

Based on the 1957 play "Orpheus Descending," which itself was a revision of the 1940 play "Battle of Angels" by Tennessee Williams, who co-wrote the screenplay.

Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier (Brando) flees the law in New Orleans and finds work at a small-town store run by the resentful and frustrated Lady Torrance (Magnani), whose husband (Victor Jory) lies ill in the apartment above the store.

Set in an unnamed small Southern town.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good, with thin two inch bruise to upper left portion of the image.

Criterion Collection 515.


[Book #152019]