Orpheus Descending is a 1990 American television film starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by Peter Hall.

[3] The stage actors such as Redgrave, Kevin Anderson and Brad Sullivan reprised their roles for the film.

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.

Then Lady Torrance meets the orpheuse, a young man named Val Xavier (Kevin Anderson), an Elvis Presley-inspired drifter.

A romantic entanglement ensues as Lady Torrance puts behind the misery of marriage behind her and tries to find passion and happiness with Val.