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A Paul Newman comment:

think his three finest performances were in "The Young Philadelphians," "Long Hot Summer" and "Harper."
In LHS, he played a character extremely close to that of Brando in "The Fugitive Kind," though his love interest is the store owner's young daughter, not his wife.
The contrast in their acting styles is very apparent: Brando never plays to the audience, asking for approval---if anything, he makes himself obnoxious. Newman, unfortunately, adopted the habit of grinning too widely and often, seemingly attempting to ingratiate himself to the viewer.
Anyhow, Orson Welles, Joanne Woodward, and several others enliven the film: it's so over the top it becomes grand entertainment: I believe it's based on a Faulkner short story, "The Barn Burner."
It bears, as I mentioned, a lot of similarities to the Williams story: I wonder who plagiarized whom?


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