A streetcar named Desire
2006
DVDs and BluRay
Total copies: 1
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 by 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.
Main title:
Author:
Kazan, Elia, film directorWilliams, Tennessee, 1911-1983Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967, actorBrando, Marlon, actorHunter, Kim, 1922-2002, actor
Edition:
Two-disc special edition.
Imprint:
Moore Park, NSW : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2013]©2013.
Collation:
2 videodisc (approximately 119 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Movie feature includes the censored three minutes of footage cut from the 1951 motion picture.Based upon the original play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick.English. [CC] English Captions (Descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired).
Credits:
Screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; director of photography, Harry Stradling ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.
Performers:
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere, Edna Thomas.
Audience:
M - Adult themes.
System details:
DVD ; region 4 ; dolby digital ; aspect ratio 4:3 ; single sided, dual layered ; 16:9 enhanced.
Access restrictions:
Censorship classification: M.
Dewey class:
791.4372
Language:
EnglishFrenchSpanish
Subject:
BRN:
748896