A streetcar named Desire

Kazan, Elia, (director.). Williams, Tennessee 1911-1983 (screenwriter.). Feldman, Charles K., 1904-1968 (producer.). Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967 (actor.). Hunter, Kim, 1922-2002 (actor.). Malden, Karl, (actor.). Brando, Marlon, (actor.). North, Alex, (composer (expression)). Williams, Tennessee 1911-1983 Streetcar named Desire. (Added Author). Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) (Added Author). Warner Home Video (Firm) (Added Author). Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando. (Cast).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0780666879
ISBN: 9780780666870
Physical Description: videorecording
videodisc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2010]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Based upon the original play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951. Special features: commentary by Karl Malden and film historians: Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Harry Stradling ; editor, David Weisbart ; original music, Alex North.
Participant or Performer Note:	Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: PG; for thematic elements.
System Details Note:	DVD; NTSC; full screen; Dolby digital mono; region 1; dual-layer format.
Language Note:	English with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Awards Note:	Academy Awards, 1952: Best actress (Leigh), best supporting actor (Malden), best supporting actress (Hunter), best art direction-set direction, black and white.