Four Academy Award–winning actors – Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton – sink their teeth into The Fugitive Kind, and enthralling drama, which brings together the legendary talents of director Sidney Lumet and writer Tennessee Williams.

A smoldering, snakeskin-jacketed Brando is Val Xavier, a guitar-strumming drifter trying to go straight. He finds work and solace in a southern small-town variety store run by Lady Torrance (Magnani), who's lonely, sexually frustrated, and abused by her vile, deathly ill husband, and who proves as much a temptation for Val as local wild child Carol (Woodward). Lumet captures the intense, fearless performances and Williams's hot-blooded storytelling and social critique with his customary restraint, resulting in a drama of uncommon sophistication and craft.

The Fugitive Kind will be released on US DVD on 27th April 2010 by Criterion at the SRP of $39.95. The disc will have a new, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Sidney Lumet and the following special features:

• New video interview with Lumet;
• New documentary featuring Tennessee Williams scholar Robert Bray and
  film historian R. Barton Palmer discussing Williams's work in Hollywood and
  The Fugitive Kind;
• Three Plays by Tennessee Williams, an hour-long television presentation of three one-act plays by Williams, directed by Lumet in 1958;
• A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Thomson.