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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 temptat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hopkins, Kenyon (Composer)
Corporate Authors: United Artists Corporation, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Brando, Marlon (Actor), Magnani, Anna, 1908-1973 (Actor), Woodward, Joanne, 1930- (Actor), Stapleton, Maureen (Actor), Jory, Victor, 1902-1982 (Actor), Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011 (Director), Jurow, Martin (Producer), Shepherd, Richard A., 1927-2014 (Producer), Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:In English with optional English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2010]
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 515.
Subjects:
Williams, Tennessee, > 1911-1983 > Film adaptations.
Drifters > Drama.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Drama.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Feature films > United States.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Online Access:Connect to reviews of this title online
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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. Special edition bonus features include: interview with Sidney Lumet, documentary, three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, and booklet.
Item Description: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 include video interview with Lumet, "Three plays by Tennessee Williams" an hour long television presentation of one-act plays, and a program discussing Williams' work in Hollywood and The fugitive kind.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (approximately 122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Format:DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; widescreen ; Dolby digital, mono.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Boris Kauman ; music, Kenyon Hopkins ; editor, Carl Lerner ; associate producer, George Justin.
ISBN:9781604652703
1604652705