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Actors: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond Director: Elia Kazan Rating: Features: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC Number of Discs: 2 Running Time: 122 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Release Date: May 2, 2006 Theatrical Release Date: 1951 Studio: Warner Home Video
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A Streeetcar Named Desire: The Original Director's Version is the Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams film moviegoers would have seen had not Legion of Decency censorship occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring among other things the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh and Stanley Kowalski Marlon Brando and Stella Kowalski's Kim Hunter passion for husband Stanley. Catch all of the classic - nominated for 12 Academy AwardsO including Best Picture and winner of 4* - that introduced a new era of filmmaking. Step aboard this Streetcar.Running Time: 122 min.System Requirements:Running Time 122 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 085393893224 Manufacturer No: 38932
Looking for a benchmark in movie acting? Breakthrough performances don't come much more electrifying than Marlon Brando's animalistic turn as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Sweaty, brutish, mumbling, yet with the balanced grace of a prizefighter, Brando storms through the role--a role he had originated in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams's celebrated play. Stanley and his wife, Stella as in Brando's oft-mimicked line, "Hey, Stellaaaaaa!", are the earthy couple in New Orleans's French Quarter whose lives are upended by the arrival of Stella's sister, Blanche DuBois Vivien Leigh. Blanche, a disturbed, lyrical, faded Southern belle, is immediately drawn into a battle of wills with Stanley, beautifully captured in the differing styles of the two actors. This extraordinarily fine adaptation won acting Oscars for Leigh, Kim Hunter as Stella, and Karl Malden as Blanche's clueless suitor, but not for Brando. Although it had already been considerably cleaned up from the daringly adult stage play, director Elia Kazan was forced to trim a few of the franker scenes he had shot. In 1993, Streetcar was rereleased in a "director's cut" that restored these moments, deepening a film that had already secured its place as an essential American work. --Robert Horton
