For the 1937 Tennessee Williams play, see Fugitive Kind.
The Fugitive Kind
Original poster
Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Screenplay by
Meade Roberts
Tennessee Williams
Based on
Orpheus Descending 1957 play by Tennessee Williams
Produced by
Martin Jurow
Richard Shepherd
Starring
Marlon Brando
Anna Magnani
Joanne Woodward
Maureen Stapleton
Victor Jory
Cinematography
Boris Kaufman
Edited by
Carl Lerner
Music by
Kenyon Hopkins
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date
April 14, 1960 (1960-04-14) (New York City)
Running time
119 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
$2.1 million (US/ Canada)[1]
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]
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.
^"Rental Potentials of 1960", Variety, 4 January 1961 p 47. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
^Peter Kihiss (June 7, 1977). "Frank Thompson, Top Designer Of Costumes for Stage and Ballet". The New York Times.
^Thomson, David. "The Fugitive Kind: When Sidney Went to Tennessee". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
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