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The fugitive kind [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2010.

American drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.

Gambling -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 515.

Video Difference legacy collection.

1404997091 (2005 MGM DVD single-disc ed.)

Alternate title:

Three plays by Tennessee Williams [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 or (2) videodisc(s) (ca. 122 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet (13 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Based on the play "Orpheus Descending" by Tennessee Williams as produced on Broadway by Robert Whitehead for Producers Theatre, Inc.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.

Special features (Disc 2): "Sidney Lumet" interview with director Sidney Lumet ; "Hollywood's Tennessee and The fugitive kind" historians Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer discuss film adaptations of Tennessee's plays ; "Three plays by Tennessee Williams" an hour long television presentation of three one-act plays (Moony's kid don't cry, The last of my solid gold watches, This property is condemned) ; PLUS: a booklet: "When Sidney went to Tennessee" essay by David Thomson.

MGM edition is in English with optional English or French subtitles and is closed-captioned. See holdings.

English (SDH) subtitles for the hearing impaired.

Disc 1. Feature film -- Disc 2. The supplements.

20th Century Fox ; Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; a United Artists release ; screenplay by Tennessee Williams and Meade Roberts ; director of photography, Boris Kaufman ; produced by Martin Jurow and Richard A. Shepherd ; directed by Sidney Lumet.

Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward with Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory, R.G. Armstrong, John Baragrey, Virgilia Chew, Sally Gracie, Ben Yaffee, Lucille Benson, Joe Brown, Jr., Emory Richardson, Mary Perry, Nell Harrison, Spivy and Janice Mars.

"Four Academy Award-winning actors - Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, and Maureen Stapleton - sink their teeth into this enthralling drama, which brings together the legendary talents of director Sidney Lumet and writer Tennessee Williams. A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Brando is Val Xavier, a guitar-strumming drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a southern small-town variety store run by Lady Torrance (Magnani), who's lonely, sexually frustrated, and abused by her vile, deathly ill husband, and who proves as much a temptation for Val as local wild child Carol (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."--Container.

Melodrama and tearjerker films.

Substance abuse films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Orpheus descending.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Moony's kid don't cry.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Last of my solid gold watches.

Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. This property is condemned.

Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011.

Brando, Marlon.

Magnani, Anna, 1908-1973.

Woodward, Joanne, 1930-

Stapleton, Maureen.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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