The Fugitive Kind (Criterion Collection) (Blu ray) [USA]

C.C. 95

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Release Date: January 14, 2020
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Director
: Sidney Lumet
Writers: Tennessee Williams, Meade Roberts
Starring: Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, Maureen Stapleton
  • United States
  • 1960
  • 121 minutes
  • Black & White
  • 1.66:1
  • English
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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.

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DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
  • High-definition digital restoration, approved by director Sidney Lumet, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • Interview from 2009 with Lumet
  • Three Plays by Tennessee Williams, an hour-long 1958 television presentation of one-act plays, directed by Lumet and starring Ben Gazzara and Lee Grant, among others
  • Program from 2010 discussing Williams’s work in Hollywood and The Fugitive Kind
  • PLUS: An essay by film critic David Thomson
 
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