Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | April 30, 2005 | | Summary | underated | Content
 | The performances are great, especially Brando's. It's a shame it's not on DVD. The same goes for his outstanding job in The Nightcomers. He was cheated and so were we! |
| Rating | | | Date | January 20, 2005 | | Summary | A Minor Work With Major Acting | Content
| Clearly this film/play is by no means on the level of A Streetcar Named Desire, but I find it rather enjoyable. The dialogue is not well written and it's a bit over the top, and of course the film is very melodramatic. And it does tend to drag on and on, but, it is the superb acting of Anna Magnani and Marlon Brando that carry the film and keep my interest. Brando is as magnetic as ever, your eyes are always drawn to him--no matter who is in the scene with him--he gives a great performance considering the script. Despite their reported off-screen squabbles, Brando and Magnani have great chemistry and electrify the screen together. The cinematography is fabulous and adds to the mood of the film. Although it's not Tennessee's best, it's definitely a movie I'll watch time and time again. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 22, 2004 | | Summary | haunting | Content
| My favorite Brando films are On The Waterfront, One-Eyed Jacks, and The Fugitive Kind. Of these three, the one I can re-watch the easiest is The Fugitive Kind, as it wastes less film/script in story exposition and devotes more to the art of film-making and film acting.
I saw this film a half dozen times or so on TV when I was a teenager, when it seemed to be a staple of late-night network TV, before the advent of cable. I was probably one of thousands of young men who wanted to be the guy thumbing into a small town wearing a snakeskin jacket and carrying a beat-up guitar that received as a gift from Leadbelly in New Orleans.
Incidentally David Lynch resurrects the snakeskin jacket for Nick Cage's character in Wild At Heart ...
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| Rating | | | Date | October 27, 2000 | | Summary | For the fugitive kind of person.. | Content
| I recently saw this film in a class of mine, and afterwards I was compelled to buy it. This film embodies the idea that silence is more powerful than words. Some people may find this film boring and slow, but those who do have not felt the intense connection you get by watching someone--the way they move, observe, think--and by understanding their human emotion. Though the story in general is simple--two strange and peculiar characters fall in love--the thoughtful lighting, the ambient music, the disorienting camera angles, the sharp acting..they all unite to create a complicated layer of emotions that provoke you. On the silver screen, these characters will go down as silent heroes to those who ever felt they were misunderstood by most. This film is a peculiar classic with peculiar characters, but nonetheless brilliant. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 02, 2000 | | Summary | Magnani! | Content
| This is one of my favorite films ever. The cinematography is wonderful enough to almost be a character itself! Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton turn in excellent performances - and the beautiful Anna Magnani was never been more sensual. The story is pretty melodramatic, as you'd expect from being based on a Tennesee Williams play (Orpheus Descending). This film is a classic. |
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