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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. Also vying for Vals attention are the alcoholic, sex-crazed Carol Cutrere and the unhappily-married Vee Talbot. Each brings her share of problems into Vals plans, himself equally tempted by these women, though he succumbs to the charms of Lady. But the jealous Jabe is friends with Sheriff Talbot, whos also Vees wife - things cant possibly end well for Val and Lady. The screenplay by Meade Roberts and Tennessee Williams is based on Williams own 1957 play "Orpheus Descending".
Having been in and out of trouble with the law from his fast living, Valentine Xavier, a drifter and musician who played primarily in New Orleans, decides to turn over a new leaf when he reaches Two Rivers County in the American deep south. With the help of the sheriffs wife Vee Talbot, Xavier is able to get a job as a clerk at Torrance Mercantile in Vee knowing that Jabe Torrance will soon be coming home from the Memphis hospital, and will likely never be able to get out of bed in the apartment above the store on his own, leaving his wife, Lady Torrance, to run the store by herself. Xavier, in his trademark snakeskin jacket, exudes a masculine sexuality, which increases business at the store by all the admiring young women of the county now frequenting it. Who lets him know in no uncertain terms that she is interested is party girl Carol Cutrere, whose fast ways has had her banned from Two Rivers, period, plus a number of other businesses outside of the county line. The one female in the county openly stating that she is not interested is Lady, despite not loving or ever having loved hard and violent Jabe, she putting any past infidelity in search of happiness behind her. The interactions between Xavier and Lady lead to them once again striving for happiness in their lives, which is interrupted by many of the men, including Sheriff Jordan Talbot, looking out for Jabes interests, they who, as a collective, have an equally violent outlook as the answer to lifes problems.
Marlon Brando
Valentine Xavier
Joanne Woodward
Carol Cutrere
Anna Magnani
Lady Torrance
Maureen Stapleton
Vee Talbot
Victor Jory
Jabe Torrance
R.G. Armstrong
Sheriff Jordan Talbot
Virgilia Chew
Nurse Porter
Ben Yaffee
'Dog' Hamma
Joe Brown Jr.
'Pee Wee' Binnings
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Dolly Hamma
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