The Fugitive Kind
Marlon Brando described Anna Magnani as being equally fiery and passionate off screen. He claimed she made a pass at him in a hotel before filming began.,At the cemetery, Xavier returns to the car and turns on its headlights. A much brighter studio light comes on a beat too late to further illuminate the right side of the frame.,Lady Torrance: Tell me some more about your self-control.
Valentine Xavier: Well, they say that a woman can burn a man down, you know? But I can burn a woman down. I'm saying that I could. I'm not saying I would.
Lady Torrance: What's the matter? Have they tired you out?
Valentine Xavier: No, I'm not tired.,Featured in American Masters: Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994),Blanket Roll Blues
Music by Kenyon Hopkins
Lyrics by Tennessee Williams,"Orpheus Descending" may be one of Tennessee Williams' lesser plays but this screen version, under the more commercial title "The Fugitive Kind", is a fairly juicy entertainment. thanks for the most part to the playing of Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward. They are superb and lift the material, which is far from first-rate, to an altogether higher plain. The director was Sidney Lumet and while it may not be the best thing he's ever done, he certainly ensures we are never bored.

Williams himself adapted his play along with Meade Roberts and he signposts all the big moments well in advance. Once you hear Magnani's Lady Torrence tell of how vigilantes burned down her father's orchard with him in it, you know how things will turn out - badly! The superb cinematography, in widescreen and in black and white, is by the great Boris Kaufman and the nice, bluesy score is by Kenyon Hopkins.,