Based on the play "Orpheus Descending" by Tennessee Williams as produced on Broadway by Robert Whitehead for Producers Theatre, Inc.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960.
Special features Disc 2: "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). Booklet: "When Sidney went to Tennessee" essay by David Thomson.
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 ; associate producer, George Justin.
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.
DVD; NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation enhanced for (16:9) televisions; Dolby digital mono.
English subtitles for the hearing impaired.
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