As part of film season dedicated to Marlon Brando - Un Mito Chiamato Brando - Videoteca Pasinetti screens The Fugitive Kind (U.S.A. 1959 120’), directed by Sidney Lumet; starring Marlon Brando, Joanne Woodward, Anna Magnani, Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory.

The film will be shown in its original version with subtitles in Italian.

When drifter Valentine Xavier (Marlon Brando) arrives in a southern town, he catches the eye of the married Lady Torrance (Anna Magnani) and the oversexed alcoholic, Carol Cutrere (Joanne Woodward). Both vie for his attention, with Lady Torrance emerging victorious, offering Xavier employment in her general store, while her cancer-stricken husband is bedridden upstairs. After impregnating Lady Torrance and butting heads with friends of her husband, Xavier must make a crucial decision.