My experience with Tennessee Williams's work is limited to multiple viewings of both A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I love both of those films and still have yet to entirely crack into the rest of my Tennessee Williams Collection from 2006 to get more acquainted, but after watching Sidney Lumet's adaptation of The Fugitive Kind I am certainly more likely to do so.
Starring Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani, The Fugitive Kind swallows you whole. It's an atmospheric romance of class and conflict that slowly warms but has enough restraint to never boil over even if its players might. Brando stars as the drifter Valentine Xavier. Just released from jail, Val finds himself caught in a torrential downpour when he is offered a place to stay for the night by Vee Talbot (Maureen Stapleton). Vee helps him find work in his effort to "turn over a new leaf.
Starring Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani, The Fugitive Kind swallows you whole. It's an atmospheric romance of class and conflict that slowly warms but has enough restraint to never boil over even if its players might. Brando stars as the drifter Valentine Xavier. Just released from jail, Val finds himself caught in a torrential downpour when he is offered a place to stay for the night by Vee Talbot (Maureen Stapleton). Vee helps him find work in his effort to "turn over a new leaf.
- 4/27/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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