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The Fugitive Kind

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The Fugitive Kind (1960)
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Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with probl... Read allValentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, a trouble-prone drifter trying to go straight, wanders into a small Mississippi town looking for a simple and honest life but finds himself embroiled with problem-filled women.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
6.4K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
7,724
805
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    • Director
      • Sidney Lumet
    • Writers
      • Tennessee Williams(screenplay)
      • Meade Roberts(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Marlon Brando
      • Joanne Woodward
      • Anna Magnani
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Sidney Lumet
    • Writers
      • Tennessee Williams(screenplay)
      • Meade Roberts(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Marlon Brando
      • Joanne Woodward
      • Anna Magnani
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    • 49User reviews
    • 59Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    "Fugitive Kind, The" Anna Magnani, Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward 1960 UA
    "Fugitive Kind, The" Joanne Woodward, Marlon Brando 1960 UA
    "Fugitive Kind, The" Marlon Brando 1960 UA
    Marlon Brando with Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward during filming of "The Fugitive Kind" 1960 UA
    Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind (1960)
    The Fugitive Kind (1960)
    Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani in The Fugitive Kind (1960)
    Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward in The Fugitive Kind (1960)
    Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind (1960)
    Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani in The Fugitive Kind (1960)
    Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani in The Fugitive Kind (1960)
    Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani in The Fugitive Kind (1960)

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    Marlon Brando
    Marlon Brando
    • Valentine Xavier
    Joanne Woodward
    Joanne Woodward
    • Carol Cutrere
    Anna Magnani
    Anna Magnani
    • Lady Torrance
    Maureen Stapleton
    Maureen Stapleton
    • Vee Talbot
    Victor Jory
    Victor Jory
    • Jabe Torrance
    R.G. Armstrong
    R.G. Armstrong
    • Sheriff Jordan Talbot
    Virgilia Chew
    • Nurse Porter
    Ben Yaffee
    • 'Dog' Hamma
    Joe Brown Jr.
    • 'Pee Wee' Binnings
    Mary Perry
    Madame Spivy
    • Ruby Lightfoot
    • (as Spivy)
    John Baragrey
    John Baragrey
    • David Cutrere
    Sally Gracie
    • Dolly Hamma
    Lucille Benson
    Lucille Benson
    • Beulah Binnings
    Emory Richardson
    • Uncle Pleasant
    Neil Harrison
      Janice Mars
      • Gas Station Attendant's Wife
      Jeanne Barr
      Jeanne Barr
      • Bit Part
      • (uncredited)
      • Director
        • Sidney Lumet
      • Writers
        • Tennessee Williams(screenplay) (play "Orpheus Descending")
        • Meade Roberts(screenplay)
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      • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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      Did you know

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      • Trivia
        This was the first mainstream American film to feature the word "sonofabitch." This occurs at 56 minutes into the movie, with Joanne Woodward using the now-ubiquitous word.
      • Goofs
        At the cemetery, Xavier returns to the car and turns on its headlights. A much brighter studio light comes on a beat too late to further illuminate the right side of the frame.
      • Quotes

        Lady Torrance: Tell me some more about your self-control.

        Valentine Xavier: Well, they say that a woman can burn a man down, you know? But I can burn a woman down. I'm saying that I could. I'm not saying I would.

        Lady Torrance: What's the matter? Have they tired you out?

        Valentine Xavier: No, I'm not tired.

      • Connections
        Featured in American Masters: Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)
      • Soundtracks
        Blanket Roll Blues
        Music by Kenyon Hopkins

        Lyrics by Tennessee Williams

      User reviews49

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      Top review
      9/10
      A wild emotional and dramatic ride, not quite believable, but a hyper small town world
      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 Hollywood gems in that time are usually a little gut wrenching, and many are based on plays, or push political issues (I'm thinking of "The Apartment" and "The Manchurian Candidate"). The famous directors coming to their own during time include Elia Kazan and Robert Wise, and of course Sidney Lumet, who directed this one.

      This is all working class, plainspeaking, emotive material. Right from the get-go with leading man Marlon Brando doing a long take as he stands before a judge, we are filled with heart-wrenching stuff, people who want to be something and don't know how, or people with big hearts that are broken or dirty. The cast, beyond Brando, is terrific: Joanne Woodward as a young floozy with a sharp sense of independence, Maureen Stapleton as a simple and faith filled wife of the sheriff, and Anna Magnani, intense and troubled but superior in her own out of place way.

      There are powerful displays of white narrow-mindedness (call it bigotry, but it is largely aimed at just anyone they don't like) that don't quite fall into clichés, there is love that shouldn't be and that never is, there is old world morality and inbred local gossipy immorality. Things are bound for collision even by twenty minutes in, and there are innuendoes and hidden histories waiting to blossom.

      Lumet has a knack for the serious, with his 1957 breakthrough film "12 Angry Men" a template for his career. As lively and even crazy as this movie is, it's also probing deeply into human woe and maladjustment (often deliberate). The core of the writing belongs to Tennessee Williams, who of course is all about inner troubles and outward misunderstood or mistaken actions. There is nothing superficial here, not in the acting, the filming, or the scenes (set in the South but filmed near Saratoga Springs, New York). And if the wet, dark nights scenes and interiors with people quarreling and fighting aren't enough to suck you in, the story, about wanting to live, nothing more, is beautiful and important. All four of the main characters are deeply good people, and all flawed in small but debilitating ways.

      Which should sound familiar. As over the top as it sometimes seems, you'll identify with the position some of the people end up in. Brando is temperamental but patient and with a profound sense of justice. Woodward is a free spirit misunderstood (and punished) by the uptight and hypocritical society around her. The themes are frank for 1960, including an implication of a male so manly and irresistible the women want him (and get him) even when it's completely wrong. And when it's right. The sexuality, partly pumped up by the writing of the openly gay playwright (Williams), is all over Brando's face and in his scenes. And this is his movie.

      High high drama, but from within. And explosive. Don't miss it.
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      • Release date
        • April 14, 1960 (United States)
      • Country of origin
        • United States
      • Language
        • English
      • Also known as
        • Orpheus Descending
      • Filming locations
        • Milton, New York, USA
      • Production company
        • Pennebaker Productions
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      • Budget
        • $2,000,000 (estimated)
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 59 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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