The Fugitive Kind
“With a guitar and a snake skin jacket he drifted out of the rain...and into the lives of these two women...”
1960 · 1 h 59 min
Sidney LumetCast
Marlon Brando 
Joanne Woodward 
Anna Magnani 
Maureen Stapleton 
Victor Jory 
R.G. Armstrong
Credits
Written by: 
Tennessee Williams
Plot
A drifter in a snakeskin jacket arrives in a Mississippi town and gets involved with a lonely shopkeeper's wife.
Sinekatalog’s take
Sidney Lumet's Tennessee Williams adaptation is steamy and stagey, with Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (8,452 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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