A streetcar named Desire
(DVD)
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Published
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2010].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Published
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2010].
Language
English
UPC
883929159871
Notes
General Note
Based upon the original play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick.
General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.
General Note
Special features: commentary by Karl Malden and film historians: Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery.
Creation/Production Credits
Director of photography, Harry Stradling ; art director, Richard Day ; editor, David Weisbart ; original music, Alex North ; musical director, Ray Heindorf.
Participants/Performers
Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando.
Description
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.
System Details
DVD format; NTSC; full screen; Dolby digital mono; region 1; dual-layer format.
Language
English with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
Awards
Academy Awards, 1952: Best actress (Leigh), best supporting actor (Malden), best supporting actress (Hunter), best art direction-set direction, black and white.
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