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

The Fugitive Kind

6.9 (120 votes)• 1960• 119m•Released

Romance Drama

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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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Languages: English

Director: Sidney Lumet

Starring Cast: Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Victor Jory, Maureen Stapleton, R.G. Armstrong

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

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