DVD Features:
- Featurette
- Theatrical Trailers
- Subtitles in English, French & Spanish
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 2, 2006
- Originally Released: 1956
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Audio:
- Additional Release Material:
- Documentary: New Featurette Baby Doll: See No Evil
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Description by OLDIES.com:
Times are tough for cotton-miller Archie (Karl Malden) but at least he has his child-bride (Carroll Baker), who'll soon be his wife in title and truth. The one-year agreement keeping them under the same roof - yet never in the same bed - is about to end. But a game with a sly business rival (Eli Wallach) is about to begin. In Baby Doll, as in A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations - earning condemnation by the then-powerful Legion of Decency. They also earned laurels too: Four Academy Award nominations, Golden Globe Awards for Baker and Kazan and a British Academy Award for Wallach. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide proclaims, "still sizzles."
Product Description:
Still controversial, this adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play (by the playwright) caused an outrage upon its release. From this vantage point, Kazan's claustrophobic depiction of the sweaty competition between a dim cotton mill owner and his business rival for the attention of the mill owner's simpering child bride is less shocking than harrowing. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Actress--Carroll Baker, Best (Adapted) Screenplay.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Baby Doll
Scandalous in its time, still steamy today: Tennessee Williams' ribald tale of Mississippi child bride (Carroll Baker) and the men (Karl Malden, Eli Wallach) who lust after her.
Year: 1956
Director: Eli Kazan
Starring: Carl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach
Plot Synopsis:
In this drama, written by Tennessee Williams, and starring Carroll Baker in her first major role, a child bride who cannot abide either her husband or an unsavory, persistent admirer, finds an unusual way to elude both men.
Plot Keywords:
Romance |
Suspense |
Theatrical Release |
Thriller
Production Notes:
- Film debut for actor Eli Wallach.
- First starring role for actress Carroll Baker.
- Additional cast: Eades Hogue (Town Marshal) and Noah Williamson (Deputy).
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