A streetcar named Desire / Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.

Uniform title
Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Εdition
Two-disc special edition; Standard format.
Published/​Created
  • Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2006]
  • ©2006
Description
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Availability

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status Location Service Notes
ReCAP - Remote Storage: Video CollectionDVD 5634 Browse related items Request

    Details

    Subject(s)
    Production company
    Publisher
    Film director
    Screenwriter
    Film producer
    Actor
    Director of photography
    Art director
    Set designer
    Editor of moving image work
    Composer (expression
    Musical director
    Costume designer
    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Getty AAT genre
    Series
    Tennessee Williams film collection [More in this series]
    Medium/​Support
    • plastic rdamat http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAMaterial/1029
    • 4 3/4 in.
    Summary note
    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. He sets about discovering everything else he can about her past, and tension between Blanche and Stanley is further intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.
    Notes
    • 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 (disc 1): optional commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery (21 min.).
    • Special features (disc 2): "Elia Kazan : a director's journey" (76 min.); "A Streetcar on Broadway" (22 min.); "A Streetcar in Hollywood" (29 min.); "Censorship and desire" (17 min.); "North and the music of the South" (10 min.); "An actor named Brando" (9 min.); "Marlon Brando screen test for Rebel Without a Cause" (5 min.); Outtakes (16 minutes) ; Audio outtakes (17 min.).
    Creation/​Production credits
    Director of photography, Harry Stradling ; art director, Richard Day ; film editor, David Weisbart ; set decorator, George James Hopkins ; wardrobe by Lucinda Ballard ; original music by Alex North ; musical direction by Ray Heindorf.
    Target audience
    MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements.
    System details
    DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital mono.
    Awards
    1951 Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Actress in a Supporting Role; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere, Edna Thomas.
    Language note
    • In English (container erroneously states that dialog is in English or French), with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
    • Closed-captioned.
    Contents
    • disc 1. 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.
    ISBN
    • 0790795809
    • 9780790795805
    Publisher no.
    38932
    OCLC
    66903119
    Universal Product Code
    • 085393893224
    • 012569750647
    Statement on language in description
    Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...
    Other views
    Staff view

    Supplementary Information