A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards Blanche's aristocratic .. Read more
| Starring | Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden |
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| Director | Elia Kazan |
| Genres | Drama |
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards Blanche's aristocratic affectations as a royal pain but also thinks she's holding out on inheritance money that rightfully belongs to Stella. On the fringes of sanity, Blanche is trying to forget her checkered past and start life anew. Attracted to Stanley's friend Mitch (Karl Malden), she glosses over the less savory incidents in her past, but she soon discovers that she cannot outrun that past, and the stage is set for her final, brutal confrontation with her brother-in-law. Brando, Hunter, and Malden had all starred in the original Broadway version of Streetcar, although the original Blanche had been Jessica Tandy. Brando lost out to Humphrey Bogart for the 1951 Best Actor Oscar, but Leigh, Hunter, and Malden all won Oscars.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Wright King, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Richard Garrick |
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| Director | Elia Kazan |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 59 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: English, Czech, German, Dutch, Spanish, Greek, Polish |
| Released | DVD: 08 May 2006 Production year: 1951 |
| Format | DVD |
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The film in which the Marlon mumble and scratch gave the Method a bad name and Tennessee Williams a yellow paper... read more on Time Out
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14 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Desireless
I watched this thinking I'd love it, but i watched it hoping it would hurry up and end. It all seemed a bit wooden, although Marlon Brandon did look wonderful in it(!)
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Brilliant performances allround have made this film one of the all time 'greats'. vivien leigh as the neurotic blanch dubois is excellent, in fact she steals the show; kim hunter as the loving sister and suffering wife has done fantastically well; and ofcourse the enigmatic,overpowering personality of young brando is always present.
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards ...
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