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.
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FilmPublisher number: 3000033667 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010.Description: 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0780666879
- 9780780666870
- Streetcar named Desire (Motion picture)
- Screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards Blanche's aristocratic affectations as a royal pain but also thinks she's holding out on inheritance money that rightfully belongs to Stella. On the fringes of sanity, Blanche is trying to forget her checkered past and start life anew. Attracted to Stanley's friend Mitch (Karl Malden), she glosses over the less savory incidents in her past, but she soon discovers that she cannot outrun that past, and the stage is set for her final, brutal confrontation with her brother-in-law. Brando, Hunter, and Malden had all starred in the original Broadway version of Streetcar, although the original Blanche had been Jessica Tandy. Brando lost out to Humphrey Bogart for the 1951 Best Actor Oscar, but Leigh, Hunter, and Malden all won Oscars. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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.
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.