Orpheus Descending (film)
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Genres Drama, Romance Film Country United States | 8/10 IMDb Cinematography Mike Fash Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 24 December 1990 Cast (Vee Talbot), (Lady Torrance), Patti Allison (Dolly Hamma), Michael Emerson (Clown), (Val Xavier)Similar movies Maverick , The Cure , The Master , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Life , Bunraku | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Orpheus Descending is a 1990 American television film starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by Peter Hall. It is an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play of the same name. Hall had directed Redgrave in an acclaimed Broadway production of the play a year earlier. The stage actors such as Redgrave, Kevin Anderson and Brad Sullivan reprised their roles for the film.
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Plot
Lady Torrance (Redgrave) is introduced as a disillusioned character; her Sicilian father was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and she's been trapped in a miserable marriage for twenty years. Her tyrannical and bigoted husband is struck down by cancer. Then Lady Torrance meets the orpheuse, a young man named Val Xavier (Kevin Anderson), an Elvis Presley-inspired drifter. A romantic entanglement ensues as Lady Torrance puts behind the misery of marriage behind her and finds passion and happiness with Val.
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