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The Fugitive Kind

With a guitar and a snake skin jacket he drifted out of the rain...and into the lives of these two women...

1960 · NR · 2h 1m

Directed by Sidney Lumet

6.9

TMDB audience score
125 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.

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Cast

  • Marlon Brando
    Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier

  • Anna Magnani
    Lady Torrance

  • Joanne Woodward
    Carol Cutrere

  • Victor Jory
    Jabe Torrance

  • Maureen Stapleton
    Vee Talbot

  • R.G. Armstrong
    Sheriff Jordan Talbott

  • Emory Richardson
    Uncle Pleasant, the Conjure Man

  • Madame Spivy
    Ruby Lightfoot

  • Sally Gracie
    Dolly Hamma

  • Lucille Benson
    Beulah Binnings

  • John Baragrey
    David Cutrere

  • Virgilia Chew
    Nurse Porter

  • Ben Yaffee
    'Dog' Hamma

  • Joe Brown Jr.
    'Pee Wee' Binnings

  • Mary Perry

  • Neil Harrison

  • Janice Mars
    Gas Station Attendant's Wife