| ISBN |
0790795809 |
| Classification Number |
Drama |
| Title |
A streetcar named Desire [DVD] |
| Edition |
Two-disc special edition. |
| Physical Description |
sound, black and white ; |
| Series |
DVD |
| Drama |
| Note |
Includes special features. |
| A Warner Home Video. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 1951. |
| Based upon the original play "A streetcar named Desire" by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: Movie - Commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery. Disc 2: Special features - Movie and audio outtakes; Marlon Brando screen test; Feature-length profile Elia Kazan: a director's journey; 5 new insightful documentaries: A Streetcar on Broadway, A Streetcar in Hollywood, Censorship and Desire, North and the music of the South, and An Actor Named Brando. |
| Performer |
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando. |
| This is the Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. |
| Classification |
Censorship classification - M Adult themes |
| Williams, Tennessee, -- 1911-1983 |
| Subject |
Interpersonal conflict |
| Interpersonal relations |
| Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Lust -- Drama |
| Family violence |
| Feature films |
| Feature films |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Feature films -- United States |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Interpersonal relations -- Drama |
| Interpersonal conflict -- Drama |
| Family violence -- Drama |
| Louisiana -- New Orleans |
| New Orleans (La.) -- Drama |
| Additional Author |
Kazan, Elia |
| Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967 |
| Brando, Marlon |
| Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 Streetcar named Desire. |
| Hunter, Kim |
