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The Fugitive Kind

With a guitar and a snake skin jacket he drifted out of the rain...and into the lives of these two women...

  • Movie
  • 1960
  • NR
  • 2h 1m

Directed by Sidney Lumet

6.9

TMDB audience rating
6.9 out of 10 from 125 votes

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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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Cast and crew

  • Marlon Brando

    Marlon BrandoValentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier

  • Anna Magnani

    Anna MagnaniLady Torrance

  • Joanne Woodward

    Joanne WoodwardCarol Cutrere

  • Victor Jory

    Victor JoryJabe Torrance

  • Maureen Stapleton

    Maureen StapletonVee Talbot

  • R.G. Armstrong

    R.G. ArmstrongSheriff Jordan Talbott

  • Emory Richardson

    Emory RichardsonUncle Pleasant, the Conjure Man

  • Madame Spivy

    Madame SpivyRuby Lightfoot

  • Sally Gracie

    Sally GracieDolly Hamma

  • Lucille Benson

    Lucille BensonBeulah Binnings

  • John Baragrey

    John BaragreyDavid Cutrere

  • Virgilia ChewNurse Porter

  • Ben Yaffee'Dog' Hamma

  • Joe Brown Jr.

    Joe Brown Jr.'Pee Wee' Binnings

  • Mary Perry

  • Neil Harrison

  • Janice MarsGas Station Attendant's Wife

Director
Sidney Lumet
Writer
Tennessee Williams and Meade Roberts
Music
Kenyon Hopkins
Cinematography
Boris Kaufman