THE FUGITIVE KIND (1960)

The Fugitive Kind is a 1960 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, and Joanne Woodward. Meade Roberts and Tennessee Williams collaborated on the script, which was based on Williams' 1957 drama Orpheus Descending, which was a rewrite of his 1940 play Battle of Angels, which closed after a Boston test. The costumes for the film were designed by Frank Thompson.

Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier, played by Marlon Brando, is a guitar-playing wanderer who gets his moniker from his clothing. To escape being imprisoned, he flees New Orleans to a rural village. He intends to alter his drifting "party guy" life on his 30th birthday. He gets work in a small-town mercantile business run by Lady Torrance, an enraged elderly woman whose ruthless husband Jabe is sick in their flat above the store. The community is dominated by an undertone of past and contemporary violence.

Carol Cutrere, a regularly intoxicated libertine, and Vee Talbott, a plain housewife, all have their eyes on the newcomer, but Snakeskin is drawn to Lady, who has ambitious ideas to turn the run-down store into a tastefully designed "women confectionary" wing. Sheriff Talbott, Jabe's buddy, and Vee's husband threaten to murder Snakeskin if he stays in town, but when he learns Lady is pregnant, he decides to stay. It ignites Jabe's final acts of wrath, with disastrous results.

Detailed information:
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Release date: April 14, 1960
Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052832