Orpheus Descending (1990)

Directors

Peter Hall

Cast

Brad Sullivan, Kevin Anderson, Vanessa Redgrave

The story

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 20 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.

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