A Streetcar Named Desire PG
...Blanche, who wanted so much to stay a lady...
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Vivien Leigh & Marlon Brando | |
| Performer: | Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Wright King & Richard Garrick | |
| Directed by | Elia Kazan | |
| Edited by | David Weisbart | |
| Screenwriting by | Tennessee Williams & Oscar Saul | |
| Composition by | Alex North | |
| Art Direction by | Richard Day | |
| Produced by | Charles K. Feldman | |
| Director of Photography: | Harry Stradling Sr. |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Stella! Hey, Stella!"
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Actress: Vivien Leigh
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Supporting Actor: Karl Malden
Academy Awards 1951 -
Best Supporting Actress: Kim Hunter
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3/5 --
The film is perhaps best regarded as an intelligent and engaged recreation of the original Broadway experience, in which Jessica Tandy first played the role. There's no denying the awful horror and pity of the final scene.
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Guardian
Vivien Leigh gives one of those rare performances that can truly be said to evoke pity and terror.
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New Yorker
Some movie goers will be bored by its unlovely subject and wealth of talk, but others will admire it as an excursion into art.
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Associated Press
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Tennessee Williams filled the tinderbox. Marlon Brando ignited it.
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 5/5 --
The fact it was the fifth most lucrative film in its year of release is a depressing sign of how we have infantilized ourselves as spectators. [Full review in Portuguese.]
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Cinema em Cena
...Even 52 after its initial release, this sultry melodrama about aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois still packs a wallop...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/4 --
Seeing the film reminds us instantly of our perennial desire to be swept up into a compelling story.
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Cinemaphile.org
Product Description:
Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former prostitute who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. Academy Award Nominations: 12, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Screeplay. Academy Awards: 4, including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter), and Best Supporting Actor (Karl Malden). The director's cut contains three minutes of previously censored footage.
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- Sales Rank: 31,122
- UPC: 883929159871
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