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...Fugitive Kind. The screen version of Playwright Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending has a kind of nauseating beauty, luridly reworking the myth of Orpheus in a dirty little town in Mississippi. With Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Victor Jory...
...Fugitive Kind. The screen version of Playwright Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending has a kind of nauseating beauty, luridly reworking the myth of Orpheus in a dirty little town in Mississippi. With Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward, Victor Tory...
...negative charge" in Tennessee's other plays-he calls Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "a symphony of evil"-Dakin nonetheless finds an implied positive in each. Rape of a sister-in-law (A Streetcar Named Desire), homosexuality (Cat, etc.), cannibalism (Suddenly, Last Summer), garden-variety adultery (Orpheus Descending) and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth} may not be radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort of sin in human nature." The only Tennessee Williams product ever condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, Williams' brother points...
...Black Orpheus (French). An astonishing adaptation of the old legend, excitingly played by a Negro cast and impressively directed by Marcel Camus...
...most expensive movie ever made was beginning to pay for itself: a) Black Orpheus...