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L'Homme à la peau de serpent

Titre original : The Fugitive Kind
  • 1960
  • Approved
  • 1h 59min
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7,1/10
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Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, and Joanne Woodward in L'Homme à la peau de serpent (1960)
The Fugitive Kind: A Town Like This
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Un vagabond à problèmes qui essaie de se mettre dans le droit chemin, s'aventure dans une petite ville du Mississippi à la recherche d'une vie simple et honnête, mais se retrouve mêlée à des... Tout lireUn vagabond à problèmes qui essaie de se mettre dans le droit chemin, s'aventure dans une petite ville du Mississippi à la recherche d'une vie simple et honnête, mais se retrouve mêlée à des femmes à problèmes.Un vagabond à problèmes qui essaie de se mettre dans le droit chemin, s'aventure dans une petite ville du Mississippi à la recherche d'une vie simple et honnête, mais se retrouve mêlée à des femmes à problèmes.

  • Réalisation
    • Sidney Lumet
  • Scénario
    • Tennessee Williams
    • Meade Roberts
  • Casting principal
    • Marlon Brando
    • Joanne Woodward
    • Anna Magnani
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  • NOTE IMDb
    7,1/10
    7,9 k
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    • Réalisation
      • Sidney Lumet
    • Scénario
      • Tennessee Williams
      • Meade Roberts
    • Casting principal
      • Marlon Brando
      • Joanne Woodward
      • Anna Magnani
    • 57avis d'utilisateurs
    • 60avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
      • 2 victoires au total

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    Marlon Brando
    Marlon Brando
    • Valentine Xavier
    Joanne Woodward
    Joanne Woodward
    • Carol Cutrere
    Anna Magnani
    Anna Magnani
    • Lady Torrance
    Maureen Stapleton
    Maureen Stapleton
    • Vee Talbot
    Victor Jory
    Victor Jory
    • Jabe Torrance
    R.G. Armstrong
    R.G. Armstrong
    • Sheriff Jordan Talbot
    Virgilia Chew
    • Nurse Porter
    Ben Yaffee
    • 'Dog' Hamma
    Joe Brown Jr.
    • 'Pee Wee' Binnings
    Mary Perry
    Madame Spivy
    Madame Spivy
    • Ruby Lightfoot
    • (as Spivy)
    John Baragrey
    John Baragrey
    • David Cutrere
    Sally Gracie
    • Dolly Hamma
    Lucille Benson
    Lucille Benson
    • Beulah Binnings
    Emory Richardson
    • Uncle Pleasant
    Neil Harrison
      Janice Mars
      • Gas Station Attendant's Wife
      Jeanne Barr
      Jeanne Barr
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      • Réalisation
        • Sidney Lumet
      • Scénario
        • Tennessee Williams
        • Meade Roberts
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      7Wuchakk

      Southern Gothic tragedy with Brando, Magnani and Woodward

      Released in 1960 and directed by Sidney Lumet from Tennessee Williams' screenplay, "The Fugitive Kind" is a B&W southern Gothic drama starring Marlon Brando as loner minstrel Val "Snakeskin" from New Orleans in pursuit of a new life and the people with whom to live it. He stumbles upon a Mississippi town and gets a job at a mercantile store, which is run by a lonely passed-her-prime woman, Lady (Anna Magnani). While Snakeskin works the store downstairs, Lady's terminally ill husband is bedridden upstairs (Victor Jory). Joanne Woodward plays a histrionic beatnik while Maureen Stapleton is on hand as a housewife enamored by Snakeskin. R.G. Armstrong appears as the redneck sheriff.

      The first time I watched this movie (in 2008) I didn't much like it, probably because I wasn't familiar with Williams' stagey, melodramatic style of writing. However, after just viewing Williams' "The Night of the Iguana" (1964) and really appreciating it, I had a taste for more and so gave "The Fugitive Kind" a second chance. I'm glad I did because, this time, I was able to discern its highlights and got a lot more out of it.

      Marlon was in the midst of my favorite period of his career while filming this movie. Arguably his greatest films, "The Young Lions" (1958), "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961) and "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962), were all shot during this time. While "The Fugitive Kind" is easily the least of these it's worth checking out for a number of reasons, as long as you're in the mood for a talky adult melodrama. Like "The Night of the Iguana," this is a brooding rumination on the nature of existence. As such, there are numerous treasures to glean from the seemingly interminable dialogues. The movie's overlong and could've been tightened up, but the interspersed riches hidden within make it worth staying with, but you have to be a seasoned adult to appreciate it or, at least, mature for your years.

      Woodward's beatnik character is interesting as she's basically a hippie before hippies existed. Although her character is histrionic and somewhat annoying, some of her reflections are poignant, like in the interesting cemetery scene with Snakeskin. Emory Richardson is almost fascinating as Carol's silent black friend in a racist community. Some of their platonic imagery together is unexpected and intriguing for a film shot in 1959.

      Brando was 35 during filming and became the first actor to make $1 million for a single film (although Elizabeth Taylor earlier signed a $1 million contract for "Cleopatra," that movie wasn't released until 1963). Magnani was 51 and hot to sleep with the star, but Marlon didn't find her attractive which, needless to say, negatively affected the shoot. This is surprising because some of their scenes together are quite good. I incidentally had an Italian neighbor who passed away six weeks ago who was strikingly reminiscent of Magnani's character, both looks-wise and temperament-wise. So I know firsthand that people like her exist.

      The film runs 119 minutes and was shot in Milton, New York.

      GRADE: B
      7MOscarbradley

      The superb acting redeems it.

      "Orpheus Descending" may be one of Tennessee Williams' lesser plays but this screen version, under the more commercial title "The Fugitive Kind", is a fairly juicy entertainment. thanks for the most part to the playing of Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani and Joanne Woodward. They are superb and lift the material, which is far from first-rate, to an altogether higher plain. The director was Sidney Lumet and while it may not be the best thing he's ever done, he certainly ensures we are never bored.

      Williams himself adapted his play along with Meade Roberts and he signposts all the big moments well in advance. Once you hear Magnani's Lady Torrence tell of how vigilantes burned down her father's orchard with him in it, you know how things will turn out - badly! The superb cinematography, in widescreen and in black and white, is by the great Boris Kaufman and the nice, bluesy score is by Kenyon Hopkins.
      7moonspinner55

      Wordy, good-looking soaper for grown-ups

      Tennessee Williams and Meade Roberts co-adapted Williams' play "Orpheus Descending" about a reluctant stud drifting through backwater town, stirring up the passions of an Italian shopkeeper who's married to a cranky invalid. Eerie and fabulously atmospheric piece gives the women in particular (Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Maureen Stapleton) great roles to play. Marlon Brando, well-cast as the guitar-strumming gadabout with the bedroom eyes, doesn't seem as fully involved, and his focus tends to wander. Overall, an intriguing soap opera for mature audiences, beautifully photographed by Boris Kaufman and nimbly directed by Sidney Lumet. *** from ****
      8bkoganbing

      A Bird With No Feet Can't Land Anywhere

      I suspect that Tennessee Williams probably agreed to change the title of his classically sounding play Orpheus Descending to The Fugitive Kind in order to insure box office. Possibly some of Marlon Brando's fans garnered from The Wild One might pay their admissions thinking they were seeing something like that. I can think of worst ways to be exposed to one of America's most respected playwrights.

      This was Brando's second time doing Williams for the screen, the first time being A Streetcar Named Desire. Curiously enough this was Anna Magnani's second time doing Tennessee Williams for the screen as well, she won an Oscar in 1955 for The Rose Tattoo. So the combination of Brando and Magnani seemed a natural for the screen. I don't think The Fugitive Kind is as good as Streetcar or The Rose Tattoo, but the parts are meaty enough roles for both these honored players.

      Characters seem to drift in to The Fugitive Kind from other Williams work. Brando's Val Xavier is quite like Chance Wayne in Sweet Bird of Youth, in fact in the review's title is the illusion Brando himself makes of his character. He's an early 30 something drifter with a talent for sex and music, the former probably more than the latter.

      Unlike Chance, Xavier doesn't have a female keeper, but he'd like to find one. He passes up liaison with the town trollop played by a third Oscar winner in the cast, Joanne Woodward for the older and married Anna Magnani.

      Magnani is trapped in a loveless marriage to a dying Victor Jory, a petty tyrant who runs the town general store. Like Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Jory is dying of cancer at a much more advanced stage of the disease than Burl Ives had. Picture Big Mama from that play hot to trot for Chance Wayne and you've got the essence of The Fugitive Kind.

      Joanne Woodward has an interesting part. Part of her loose behavior is in rebellion against the time honored tradition of institutional racism that is the south that Tennessee Williams grew up in. I'm not an expert on Tennessee Williams, but of the works I've seen that are revived frequently, this is the only one where Williams directly brings up racism.

      Orpheus Descending on Broadway only ran 68 performances in 1957. Two members from the Broadway cast made it to the screen, R.G. Armstrong as the sheriff repeating his role and Maureen Stapleton who had Joanne Woodward's part on stage, essays the part of the sheriff's wife who also is married to another middle aged tyrant. Considered a lesser work of Williams at first, Orpheus Descending is now revived frequently by stock theater companies everywhere. A critically acclaimed revival on Broadway in 1989 with Vanessa Redgrave and Tammy Grimes and Kevin Anderson helped bring Orpheus Descending into its proper place in the sun.

      Maybe if a remake is ever done, it will even be done under its proper original title. Till then we can be well satisfied with this version.
      7MoreLord

      Top Notch Acting

      This is not a well-written film, but the acting is phenomenal. Brando and Magnani have really great chemistry and that's what carries the film. It is the acting of these two that make me want to watch this film time and time again. I didn't necessarily like Joanne Woodward in her role, it just didn't seem to fit her. It seemed like she was trying too hard or something, so I just tuned her out. But I was always tuned into Brando--its just something about him that just pulls you in--wondering what he'll do next in the scene. Anyway, The cinematography is great and adds to the moodiness of the film. Overall, the movie isn't necessarily Brando's greatest film, but it's by no means one of his worst. Unfortunately, there wasn't much to work with as far as the script, so the acting had to carry the film.

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      • Anecdotes
        Marlon Brando described Anna Magnani as being equally fiery and passionate off screen. He claimed she made a pass at him in a hotel before filming began.
      • Gaffes
        At the cemetery, Xavier returns to the car and turns on its headlights. A much brighter studio light comes on a beat too late to further illuminate the right side of the frame.
      • Citations

        Lady Torrance: Tell me some more about your self-control.

        Valentine Xavier: Well, they say that a woman can burn a man down, you know? But I can burn a woman down. I'm saying that I could. I'm not saying I would.

        Lady Torrance: What's the matter? Have they tired you out?

        Valentine Xavier: No, I'm not tired.

      • Connexions
        Featured in American Masters: Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)
      • Bandes originales
        Blanket Roll Blues
        Music by Kenyon Hopkins

        Lyrics by Tennessee Williams

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      • Date de sortie
        • 6 janvier 1961 (France)
      • Pays d’origine
        • États-Unis
      • Langue
        • Anglais
      • Aussi connu sous le nom de
        • El hombre de la piel de víbora
      • Lieux de tournage
        • Gold Medal Studios, Bronx, New York City, New York, États-Unis(Studio)
      • Société de production
        • Pennebaker Productions
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      • Budget
        • 2 000 000 $US (estimé)
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      • Durée
        • 1h 59min(119 min)
      • Couleur
        • Black and White
      • Rapport de forme
        • 1.66 : 1

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