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:
it's a close-to-definitive example of how to make a great play work on film, for all the very slight air of Hollywood compromise.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
5 stars out of 5 -- Simply a masterful adap of Tennessee Williams' sultry, searing play and an affirmation of Marlon Brando's acting genius...
Total Film
...STREETCAR is one of the great ensemble pieces in the movies...
Chicago Sun-Times
Vivien Leigh's virtuoso portrayal was the year's finest acting...in the same picture Marlon Brando gives a brilliant and appalling performance as a primeval brute.
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Maclean's Magazine
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
... a Hollywood landmark, both for pushing the envelope of subject matter allowed on screen by the censors and for showcasing the more naturalistic "method" approach to performance ...
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Seanax.com
Rating: 2/5 --
There's an inevitable staginess to Tennessee Williams' devastating portrait of delusion and cruelty, but director Elia Kazan catches the squalid, claustrophobic atmosphere of a New Orleans tenement just right.
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Independent (UK)
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: 31,548
- UPC: 883929159871
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