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A Streetcar Named Desire
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A Streetcar Named Desire (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Commentary by Karl Malden and Film Historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young
- Elia Kazan Movie Trailer Gallery
- Subtitles in English, French & Spanish
- Movie and Audio Outtakes
- Marlon Brando Screen Test
- Feature-Length Profile Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
- Five Documentaries.
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 2, 2006
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Vivien Leigh & Marlon Brando | |
| Performer: | Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Wright King & Richard Garrick | |
| Directed by | Elia Kazan | |
| Edited by | David Weisbart | |
| Screenwriting by | Tennessee Williams & Oscar Saul | |
| Composition by | Alex North | |
| Produced by | Charles K. Feldman | |
| Director of Photography: | Harry Stradling Sr. |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Stella! Hey, Stella!"
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Actress: Vivien Leigh
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Supporting Actor: Karl Malden
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Supporting Actress: Kim Hunter
Entertainment Reviews:
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... a Hollywood landmark, both for pushing the envelope of subject matter allowed on screen by the censors and for showcasing the more naturalistic "method" approach to performance ...
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Seanax.com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Tennessee Williams filled the tinderbox. Marlon Brando ignited it.
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LarsenOnFilm
it's a close-to-definitive example of how to make a great play work on film, for all the very slight air of Hollywood compromise.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
...Leigh, Hunter, Karl Malden and the fabulous art-set decorations all won Oscars here, though Brando's performance remains the No. 1 selling point...
USA Today
...Even 52 after its initial release, this sultry melodrama about aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois still packs a wallop...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 5/5 --
The fact it was the fifth most lucrative film in its year of release is a depressing sign of how we have infantilized ourselves as spectators. [Full review in Portuguese.]
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Cinema em Cena
Vivien Leigh gives one of those rare performances that can truly be said to evoke pity and terror.
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New Yorker
Description by OLDIES.com:
A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Director's Version is the Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. Catch all of the classic - nominated for twelve Academy Awards including Best Picture and winner of four - that introduced a new era of filmmaking. Step aboard this Streetcar.
Product Description:
Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former prostitute who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. Academy Award Nominations: 12, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Screeplay. Academy Awards: 4, including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter), and Best Supporting Actor (Karl Malden). The director's cut contains three minutes of previously censored footage.
Description by Warner Home Video:
Streetcar Named Desire, A: Special Edition
A Streeetcar Named Desire: The Original Director's Version is the Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. Catch all of the classic - nominated for 12 Academy AwardsO including Best Picture and winner of 4* - that introduced a new era of filmmaking. Step aboard this Streetcar.
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