The Rose Tattoo

Although the script places the location in a small Mississippi Gulf town, exteriors were shot in Key West. While scouting for locations, a perfect fit was found on Duncan Street for the exterior of the house owned by Serafina Delle Rose. Filmmakers needed to build a fence for a goat paddock, and the crew was worried the owner of the house next-door might object to the filming nearby and a ramshackle fence on his property. They needn't have worried - the house and property next-door at 1431 Duncan was the home that Tennessee Williams shared with his lover Frank Merlo, who happily agreed to its use, even inviting Magnani (close friends of Merlo and Williams) and Lancaster to use it as their dressing rooms. In later years, Williams had an enormous mosaic of a rose tattoo embedded in the floor of the pool behind the house, which is still there.

When the truck crashes in flames and rolls down the hillside, it is obvious from the beginning of the sequence that there is nobody in the cab.

Edited into Lo schermo a tre punte (1995)