The Fugitive Kind (Criterion Collection)

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.

Director: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Lewis F. Blumberg
Producer: Martin Jurow
Producer: Richard Shepherd
Producer: Robert Whitehead
Actor: Marlon Brando
Actor: Anna Magnani
Actor: Joanne Woodward
Actor: Maureen Stapleton
Actor: Victor Jory
Actor: R. G. Armstrong
Actor: Virgilia Chew
Actor: Nell Harrison
Actor: Frank Bergman
Actor: Jeanne Barr
Actor: Madame Spivy
Actor: Mary Perry
Actor: R.G. Armstrong
Actor: John Baragrey
Actor: Sally Gracie
Actor: Ben Yaffee
Actor: Lucille Benson
Actor: Joe Brown Jr.
Actor: Emory Richardson
Actor: Janice Mars