The Fugitive Kind
1960 film by Sidney Lumet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Fugitive Kind is a 1960 American drama film starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, and Joanne Woodward, directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Meade Roberts and Tennessee Williams was based on the latter's 1957 play Orpheus Descending, itself a revision of his 1940 work Battle of Angels, which closed after its Boston tryout. Frank Thompson designed the costumes for the film.[2]
The Fugitive Kind | |
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Directed by | Sidney Lumet |
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Based on | Orpheus Descending 1957 play by Tennessee Williams |
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Cinematography | Boris Kaufman |
Edited by | Carl Lerner |
Music by | Kenyon Hopkins |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.1 million (US/ Canada)[1] |
Despite being set in the Deep South, the United Artists release was filmed in Milton, New York.[3] At the 1960 San Sebastián International Film Festival, it won the Silver Seashell for Sidney Lumet and the Zulueta Prize for Best Actress for Joanne Woodward.
The film is available on videotape and DVD. A two-disc DVD edition by The Criterion Collection was released in April 2010. It was upgraded to Blu-Ray in January 2020.
A stage production took place in 2010 at the Arclight Theatre starring Michael Brando, grandson of Marlon Brando, in the lead role. That particular production used the edited film version of the text as opposed to the original play.