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Synopsis: Having fled New Orleans to avoid arrest, the undeniably alluring Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier (Val), a trouble-prone guitar-playing drifter, wanders into a small Mississippi town aiming to go straight and lead a quiet, simple life. He gets a job in the dry goods store owned by a sexually-frustrated middle-aged woman named Lady Torrence, whose sadistic elderly husband, Jabe, is dying. With an obscure past and passions of her own, Lady finds herself attracted to Val, pulsating with passion anew, as he presents an arousing antidote to her bitter marriage and small-town hum-drum life, but also vying for Val's attention are the alcoholic, sex-crazed Carol Cutrere and the unhappily-married Vee Talbot. Each bring their share of problems into Val's plans, himself equally tempted by these women though he succumbs to the charms of Lady. But the jealous Jabe is friends with Sheriff Talbot, who's also Vee's wife - things can't possibly end well for Val and Lady. The screenplay by Meade Roberts and
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Sidney Lumet
Production: United Artists
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
APPROVED
Year:
1960
119 min
1,289 Views


She's a Cutrere

and thinks she can do as she pleases.

Why are you pretending

not to remember me?

It's hard to remember somebody

you never met.

Are you afraid I'll snitch?

Snitch? About what?

Can I see your wristwatch?

Well, that's all right. I saw it already.

It is my cousin Bertie's Rolex Chronometer.

Of course, it doesn't matter.

I won't tell anybody.

But I can prove that I know you, if I have to.

It was last New Year's Eve in New Orleans...

and you were providing the entertainment...

in the Club Rendezvous,

or was it the Music Bar?

Miss Carol, Mr. Xavier wants to

turn over a new leaf.

As a matter of fact,

you told my cousin Bertie and me about...

this lady osteopath that you met

somewhere in your travels.

And you said, anytime you were broke...

You said, anytime you were broke...

you could wire this lady osteopath collect.

And no matter how far...

How far away you were or...

how long it had been

since you had seen her...

she would send you a money order

for $25 with the same sweet message:

"I love you. When will you come back?"

Why are you so anxious to prove

that I know you?

'Cause I'd like to know you

better and better.

I think they're coming!

If Lady catches you two old maids...

snooping around upstairs,

she'll let you have it!

They got separate bedrooms,

not even connected.

Take it easy, Jabe. I'll help you.

Here, lean on my arm.

- Good morning, Jabe. Take it easy.

- Watch your step.

Attaboy.

- I'll just go open the door.

- Does he look good, Dog?

- Here, watch your step now, Jabe.

- Attaboy.

Dolly! Beulah! We're home. Jabe's here.

He's back!

You look marvelous, Jabe.

Stop it, Eva.

It's so wonderful to see him!

- Look at that color on his face.

- I don't think he's been sick.

I think he's been to Miami

and got himself a Florida suntan.

You see, Jabe, we've got

a reception committee here to meet us.

They've prepared a buffet supper.

I see there've been some changes

made here, huh?

Yes.

How come the shoe department

is back there now?

Well, Jabe, we always had a problem

with lights in the store.

So you put the shoe department

further away from the window.

That's sensible.

That's a very intelligent solution

to the problem, Lady.

Tomorrow...

I'll get me some men and help move

the shoe department back front.

Okay. It's your store.

Glad you reminded me of it.

That man'll never come down

those stairs again.

Never in this world, honey.

- He has the death sweat on him.

- Yellow as butter.

Sister!

- Lady?

- No, thank you.

I don't suppose

you feel like talking about it?

- But Dog and me are so worried.

- Pee Wee and me was worried sick about it.

About what?

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Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.After years of obscurity, at age 33 he became suddenly famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. This play closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). With his later work, he attempted a new style that did not appeal to audiences. Increasing alcohol and drug dependence inhibited his creative expression. His drama A Streetcar Named Desire is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.Much of Williams' most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. more…

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