The Fugitive Kind (Criterion Collection) (1960) On DVD

Actor:           Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory                                                                                                                      
Director:      Sidney Lumet
Genre:          Drama
Year:            1960
Studio:          Criterion
Length:         119
Released:    April 27, 2010
Rating:          Unrated (Video)
Format:         DVD
Misc:              NTSC, Black & White
Language:    English
Subtitles  :    N/A

DESCRIPTION:

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.

Special Features:

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• New video interview with Lumet
• New documentary featuring Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer
• A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Thomson
• Plus ! Three Plays by Tennessee Williams, an hour-long TV presentation