The Fugitive Kind

Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1960. Vintage studio still photograph taken on the set of the 1960 film, showing playwright and screenwriter Tennessee Williams posing playfully with a laughing actress Anna Magnani.

Based on Williams' 1957 play "Orpheus Descending," based in turn on his earlier 1940 play "Battle of Angels." A drifter flees the law in New Orleans and finds work at a small-town store run by a resentful and frustrated older woman, whose husband lies ill in an apartment above the store.

Set in the Deep South, shot on location in Milton, New York.

8 x 10 inches. About Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 515.

[Book #167093]