A streetcar named Desire

A streetcar named Desire [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; screen play by Tennessee Williams ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan. - Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010. - 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Based upon the original play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick. Special features: commentary by Karl Malden and film historians: Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery. Title from container.

Screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan. Screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.

Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando.

After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.

Rating: PG; for thematic elements.


DVD; full screen; Dolby digital mono; region 1; dual-layer format.


English or French dialogue; English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

0780666879 9780780666870

883929159871

3000033667 Warner Home Video


Lust--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Sisters--Drama.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Drama.


New Orleans (La.)--Drama.


Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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