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.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Film adaptations
Fiction films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Burbank, CA :
Warner Home Video
[2010]
- Language
- English
French
Spanish - Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Other Authors
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- 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