Legendary Oscar-nominated director Sidney Lumet adapts Tennessee Williams' play about alluring but troublemaking drifter Val (Marlon Brando) who, while avoiding arrest in...
Legendary Oscar-nominated director Sidney Lumet adapts Tennessee Williams' play about alluring but troublemaking drifter Val (Marlon Brando) who, while avoiding arrest in a different town, attempts to hang low and go straight in Mississippi. He lands a job in a dry goods store, owned by the frustrated wife (Anna Magnani) of a dying elderly man (Victor Jory). As she sets her sights on Val, so do other members of the small Mississippi town - attention that he really cannot afford to have.
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53 %17 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
63 %2,008 reviewsAudience score rating
"Another helping from Tennessee Williams’ seemingly inexhaustible closet of mixed-up southern skeletons is exposed here with only occasional flashes of cinematic power."
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Variety
Variety"It’s an overheated, uncomfortable film that inflates Williams’ pet themes to the size of a Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon. That should be an invitation to some and fair warning to others."
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A.V. Club
A.V. Club"Ultimately, there’s not quite a sense that Lumet has a take on this material, as The Fugitive Kind has nowhere near the drive of 12 Angry Men or his 1970s-era classics. Lumet prefers straight plotting uncluttered by symbols and fanciful allusions, and he eventually became a poet of the divide between procedure and chaos."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"It is the skill with which it is performed that sets one's senses to throbbing and feeling staggered and spent at the end"
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The New York Times
The New York TimesThe Fugitive Kind | Details
- Rating
- M, Adult concepts
- Runtime
- 119
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- USA
