

The Fugitive Kind
DirectorSidney Lumet
“With a guitar and a snake skin jacket he drifted out of the rain...and into the lives of these two women...”
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
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The Fugitive Kind (1960) - The Criterion Collection
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Cast

Marlon Brando
Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier

Anna Magnani
Lady Torrance

Joanne Woodward
Carol Cutrere

Victor Jory
Jabe Torrance

Maureen Stapleton
Vee Talbot

R.G. Armstrong
Sheriff Jordan Talbott

Emory Richardson
Uncle Pleasant, the Conjure Man

Madame Spivy
Ruby Lightfoot

Sally Gracie
Dolly Hamma

Lucille Benson
Beulah Binnings

John Baragrey
David Cutrere
Virgilia Chew
Nurse Porter
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