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A streetcar named Desire

Call Number

  • BLU-RAY DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray version.

Languages

In English, French or Spanish, with optional French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis.

Publication Information

[Burbank, CA] : Warner Bros. Entertainment, [2019]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (125 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements.

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: Movie and audio outtakes ; Marlon Brando screen test ; feature-length profile Elia Kazan: a director's journey ; 5 documentaries: A streetcar on Broadway, A streetcar in Hollywood, Censorship and Desire, North and the music of the South, An actor named Brando ; commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; theatrical trailers.

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