For the 1937 Tennessee Williams play, see Fugitive Kind.The Fugitive Kind is a 1959 American drama film starring Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani, and directed by Sidney Lumet. The screenplay by Meade Roberts and Tennessee Williams was based on the latter's 1957 play Orpheus Descending, itself a revision of his unproduced 1940 work Battle of Angels.Despite being set in the Deep South, the United Artists release was filmed in Milton, New York.