A Streetcar Named Desire

Starring: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, et al.

Product Description

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: THE ORIGINAL RESTORED VERSION is the film moviegoers would have seen in 1951 had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. Elia Kazan masterfully directs Tennessee Williams' masterpiece s tarring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. Nominated for an unprecedented 12 Academy Awards , including Best Picture, and a winner of four,* its contributions to film continue to be celebrated, and it holds a place on the AFI's list of Top 100 Films.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 085393604127
• Release Date: November 1997
• Rating: Unrated (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Warner Home Video
• Director: Elia Kazan
• Starring: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick, Mickey Kuhn
• Runtime: 2 hours, 11 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

I'll Just Have A Mint Julip If You Please....

I liked Vivien Leigh much better in this movie than in Gone With The Wind. She is etheral and vunerable. Her sister has no idea what a real brute her husband is and he preys on the gentle nature of his sister in law. She has given up her life to care for her parents only to be left with nothing and after a scandal involving a student she has lost her teacher's job. The husband finds out and brutally rapes her and we see the relationship in the 1950's of men controlling women and how women were vunerable to being institutionalized for behaving the same way that men did. You learn to hate the men and feel empathy with the women and at the same time, you feel the chaotic nature of the world at the end of WW2 as men came back from Europe and wanted more than they had left from their women and the world around them. Blanche and her sister could not be as different if they tried. One is married, one is single. One has a baby and one has a drinking problem. But they are still Southern women who must try to keep a stiff upper lip in bad circumstances. Brando makes the perfect villian in this movie. Way to go Tennessee Williams.