SYNOPSIS
Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence, a sex-starved woman whose husband Jabe M. Torrance is dying of cancer upstairs. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family, who covets his snakeskin jacket as much as his body and tries to seduce him in the cemetery. Val is more attracted to the mature Lady and gets her pregnant.
- Marlon BrandoValentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier
- Joanne WoodwardCarol Cutrere
- Anna MagnaniLady Torrance
- Maureen StapletonVee Talbot
- Victor JoryJabe Torrance
- R.G. ArmstrongSheriff Jordan Talbot
- Virgilia ChewNurse Porter
- Ben Yaffee'Dog' Hamma
- Joe Brown Jr.'Pee Wee' Binnings
- Mary Perry
- Madame SpivyRuby Lightfoot
- John BaragreyDavid Cutrere
- Sally GracieDolly Hamma
- Lucille BensonBeulah Binnings
- Emory RichardsonUncle Pleasant, the Conjure Man
- Neil Harrison
- Janice MarsGas Station Attendant's Wife
- Jeanne BarrBit Part
- Frank BorgmanGas Station Attendant
- Debbie LynchLonely Girl