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A streetcar named Desire [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; director of photography, Harry Stradling ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.

Contributor(s): Kazan, Elia | Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 | Saul, Oscar | Stradling, Harry, 1901-1970 | Feldman, Charles K, 1904-1968 | Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967 | Brando, Marlon | Hunter, Kim, 1922-2002 | Malden, Karl | Bond, Rudy | Dennis, Nick | Hillias, Peg | King, Wright | Garrick, Richard T, 1878-1962 | Dere, Ann, 1868-1954 | Thomas, Edna, 1885-1974 | Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) | Warner Home Video (Firm).
Series: Tennessee Williams film collection. Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2006Edition: Two-disc special ed.; Standard version.Description: 2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 0790795809; 9780790795805; 1419823183 (set); 9781419823183 (set).Uniform titles: Streetcar named Desire (Motion picture) Subject(s): Man-woman relationships -- Drama | Lust -- Drama | Sisters -- Drama | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama | New Orleans (La.) -- Drama | Relaciones hombre-mujer -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- TeatroGenre/Form: Feature films. | Films for the hearing impaired.
Production Credits: Art director, Richard Day ; film editor, David Weisbart ; set decorator, George James Hopkins ; wardrobe by Lucinda Ballard ; original music by Alex North ; musical direction by Ray Heindorf.
Awards: 1951 Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Actress in a Supporting Role; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White.Cast: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere, Edna Thomas.Summary: After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi 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 Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.
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DVD; region 1; Dolby Digital mono.

Dialog in English (container erroneously states that dialog is in English or French) with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere, Edna Thomas.

Art director, Richard Day ; film editor, David Weisbart ; set decorator, George James Hopkins ; wardrobe by Lucinda Ballard ; original music by Alex North ; musical direction by Ray Heindorf.

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.

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements.

After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi 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 Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.

Special features: Disc 1. Movie ; Commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery. Disc 2. Elia Kazan : a director's journey; A Streetcar on Broadway; A Streetcar in Hollywood; Censorship and desire; North and the music of the South; an actor named Brando; Marlon Brando screen test; Outtakes.

1951 Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Actress in a Supporting Role; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White.

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