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THE FUGITIVE KIND (1959)

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User Rating:   7.1/10   1,408 votes

Criterion Collection # 515
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DVD Release Date: April 27, 2010


Verenigde Staten
Drama
119 minuten

geregisseerd door Sidney Lumet
met Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani en Joanne Woodward

De film is gebaseerd op het toneelstuk Orpheus Descending van Tennessee Williams en vertelt van een zwervende bruut (Brando), die in een stadje in het zuiden van de VS de vrouwen het hoofd op hol brengt. Onder zijn 'slachtoffers´een getrouwde vrouw van middelbare leeftijd (Magnani) en een vurige Carol Cuture (Woodward).

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Description
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Four Oscar winning actors -- Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, and Maureen Stapleton -- sink their teeth into this enthralling film, which brings together the legendary talents of director Sidney Lumet and writer Tennessee Williams. A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Brando is Val Xavier, a drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a southern small-town variety store run by the married, sexually frustrated Lady Torrance (Magnani), who proves as much a temptation for Val as local wild child Carol Cutrere(Woodward). Lumet captures the intense, fearless performances and Williams's hot-blooded storytelling and social critique with his customary restraint, resulting in a drama of uncommon sophistication and craft.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.18 + 6.55 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 121 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 | Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): English

Subtitles: optional English



DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DVD SET:

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Sidney Lumet.
# New video interview with Lumet.
# Three Plays by Tennessee Williams, an hour-long television presentation of one-act plays, directed by Lumet in 1958, with Ben Gazarra and Lee Grant, among others.
# New video program discussing the playwright?s work in Hollywood and The Fugitive Kind.



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