Title:
The fugitive kind
Author:
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 screenwriter.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2010]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus disc.
Summary:
A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Val Xavier is a guitar-strumming drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a Southern small-town variety store run by Lady Torrance, 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, who tries to seduce him.
General Note:
Based on the play "Orpheus Descending" by Tennessee Williams as produced on Broadway by Robert Whitehead for Producers Theatre, Inc.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
Special features bonus disc: "Sidney Lumet" interview with director Sidney Lumet; "Hollywood's Tennessee and The fugitive kind" historians Robert Bray and R. Barton Palmer discuss film adaptations of Tennessee's plays; "Three plays by Tennessee Williams" an hour long television presentation of three one-act plays (Moony's kid don't cry, The last of my solid gold watches, This property is condemned). Booklet: "When Sidney went to Tennessee" essay by David Thomson.
Language:
English
Contents:
disc 1. Feature film -- bonus disc (designated disc 2). The supplements.
Reading Level:
Not rated.
Added Author:
Added Title:
Three plays by Tennessee Williams.
ISBN:
9781604652703
UPC:
715515057219
Format :
DVD
