DVD
A streetcar named Desire
Call Number
- DVD DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Two-disc special ed. ; Full screen version.
Languages
In English, with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; Closed-captioned.
Performers
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis.
Publication Information
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements.
Uniform Title
Series
Summary
After being exiled from her Mississippi hometown 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 by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else he can about her past, and tension between Blanche and Stanley is further intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.
Notes
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.
Special features (disc 1): optional commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery (21 min.).
Special features (disc 2): "Elia Kazan : a director's journey" (76 min.); "A Streetcar on Broadway" (22 min.); "A Streetcar in Hollywood" (29 min.); "Censorship and desire" (17 min.); "North and the music of the South" (10 min.); "An actor named Brando" (9 min.); "Marlon Brando screen test for Rebel Without a Cause" (5 min.); Outtakes (16 minutes) ; Audio outtakes (17 min.).