| Edition |
Director-approved special edition. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 515 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 515.
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| System Details |
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono. |
| Cast |
Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory, R.G. Armstrong, John Baragrey, Virgilia Chew, Sally Gracie, Ben Yaffee, Lucille Benson, Joe Brown, Jr., Emory Richardson, Mary Perry, Nell Harrison, Spivy, Janice Mars. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Boris Kaufman ; music composed and conducted by, Kenyon Hopkins ; art direction, Richard Sylbert ; film editor, Carl Lerner ; assistant director, Charles H. Maguire ; costume designer, Frank Thompson ; set decorations, Eugene Callahan. |
| Note |
Based on the play "Orpheus Descending" by Tennessee Williams as produced on Broadway by Robert Whitehead for Producers Theatre, Inc. |
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Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Special features: "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). |
| Language |
English dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Subject |
Drifters -- Drama.
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Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011. Interviewee. Director.
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Screenwriter.
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Roberts, Meade, 1930-1992. Screenwriter.
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Kaufman, Boris. Cinematographer.
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Jurow, Martin. Producer.
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Shepherd, Richard A., 1927-2014. Producer.
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Brando, Marlon. Actor.
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Magnani, Anna, 1908-1973. Actor.
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Woodward, Joanne, 1930- Actor.
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Stapleton, Maureen. Actor.
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Jory, Victor, 1902-1982. Actor.
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Armstrong, R. G. (Robert Golden), 1917-2012. Actor.
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Baragrey, John, -1975. Actor.
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Chew, Virgilia, 1905-1987. Actor.
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Gracie, Sally, 1920-2001. Actor.
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Yaffee, Ben. Actor.
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Benson, Lucille, 1914-1984. Actor.
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Brown, Joe, 1921-2001. Actor.
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Richardson, Emory. Actor.
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Perry, Mary, 1887-1971. Actor.
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Harrison, Nell. Actor.
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Mars, Janice, 1924-2004. Actor.
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Hopkins, Kenyon. Composer.
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Sylbert, Richard. Artistic director.
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Lerner, Carl. Film editor.
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Maguire, Charles H. Director.
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Thompson, Frank L., 1920-1977. Costume designer.
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
Orpheus descending.
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
Moony's kid don't cry.
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
Last of my solid gold watches.
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Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
This property is condemned.
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Thomson, David, 1941-
When Sidney went to Tennessee.
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Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Three plays by Tennessee Williams.
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| ISBN |
9781604652703 |
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1604652705 |
| Standard No. |
715515057219 |
| Music No. |
CC1889D Criterion Collection |
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