A streetcar named Desire

DVD - 2010

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 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.

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Subjects
Genres
Film adaptations
Fiction films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video [2010]
Language
English
French
Spanish
Corporate Author
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
Corporate Author
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) (production company)
Other Authors
Elia Kazan (film director), Tennessee Williams, 1911-1983 (screenwriter), Oscar Saul (film producer), Charles K. Feldman, 1904-1968 (actor), Vivien Leigh, 1913-1967 (-), Kim Hunter, 1922-2002, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando
Edition
Original director's version ; full screen
Item Description
Full screen.
Based upon the original play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.
Director's cut released in 1993.
Special features: commentary by Karl Malden and film historians: Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery.
"©2006"--Disc surface.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital mono; dual-layer format.
Audience
Rating: PG; for thematic elements.
Awards
Academy Awards, 1952: Best Actress (Leigh), Best Supporting Actor (Malden), Best Supporting Actress (Hunter), Best Art Direction-Set Direction, Black-and-White.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Harry Stradling ; art director, Richard Day ; editor, David Weisbart ; original music, Alex North.
ISBN
9780780666870
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

Starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh and based on the Tennessee Williams play. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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