| Uniform Title |
A street car named Desire (Motion picture : 1951) |
| Title |
A streetcar named Desire. |
| Edition |
Two-disc special edition. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, ©2006 |
| ©1993 |
| Description |
2 DVD-videos (119 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Warner Bros. Entertainment : 38932. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 1951. |
| Based upon the original play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick. |
| Includes special features. |
| Contents |
Disc one: Movie -- Disc two: Special features. |
| Credits |
Directed by Elia Kazan. |
| Performers |
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere, Edna Thomas. |
| 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 by 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. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : M. |
| System details |
DVD video ; Region 4 ; Dolby digital ; Aspect ratio 4:3 ; 16:9 enhanced. |
| Language note |
English or Italian. Subtitles: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, French, Italian, English & Italian for the hearing impaired. |
| Subjects |
Williams, Tennessee, -- 1911-1983 -- Film adaptations |
| Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Families -- Drama |
| Feature films -- United States |
| Motion pictures, American |
| Genre |
Domestic drama (Motion pictures) |
| Historical films |
| Film adaptations |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Other Names |
Kazan, Elia director. |
| Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967 actor. |
| Brando, Marlon actor. |
| Hunter, Kim, 1922-2002 actor. |
| Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Streetcar named Desire Motion picture adaptation of (work): |
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