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Marlon Brando: Tennessee Williams
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Synopsis: Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is the aristocratic secret agent sent by Britain to secure a profitable Portuguese sugar cane plantation for the Crown. When he arrives, he befriends the black dockworker Jose (Evaristo Marquez) and plants revolutionary ideas in his head. Walker talks Jose intoRead More
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Emotional drama, based on Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending," stars Marlon Brando as a guitar-toting wanderer who disrupts the staid life of a small Mississippi town, romancing both unhappily-married Italian emigre Anna Magnani and townnympho Joanne Woodward. With Maureen Stapleton, Victor Jory; Sidney Lumet directs. 121 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French.
The Tennessee Williams play made Brando famous, and his first signs of discomfort emerged. The press made much of his motorcycle, leather jackets and T-shirts, his bongo drum playing. He hated the clamor of fans and suffered through interviews.
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