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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
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 Awards including Best Picture and winner of 4 - that introduced a new era of filmmaking. Step aboard this Streetcar.
"Stunning production...flawless performances..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
Tennessee Williams based his screenplay on Oscar Saul's adaptation of Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in a grimy New Orleans project. The story of the fragile sentimentalism of a former prostitute who visits her sister only to be taunted mercilessly by her childish brother-in-law. Academy Award Nominations: 12, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), and Best Screeplay. Academy Awards: 4, including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter), and Best Supporting Actor (Karl Malden). The director's cut contains three minutes of previously censored footage.
| Features | 5 New Insightful Documentaries: "A Streetcar On Broadway", "A Streetcar In Hollywood", "Censorship & Desire", "North & The Music Of The South" & "An Actor Named Brando" | | Audio Commentary By Karl Malden & Film Historians Rudy Behlmer & Jeff Young | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Feature-Length Profile Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey | | Interactive Menus | | Marlon Brando Screen Test | | Movie & Audio Outtakes | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 5/2/2006 |
| Running Time: 122 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1951 | | Catalog ID: 38932 | | UPC: 00085393893224 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Pan and Scan (TV Format) 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1952) |  | Karl Malden, Winner, Best Actor in a Supporting Role | | Kim Hunter, Winner, Best Actress in a Supporting Role | | Richard Day, George James Hopkins, Winner, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White | | Vivien Leigh, Winner, Best Actress in a Leading Role | |
Venice Film Festival (1951) | | Elia Kazan, Winner, Special Jury Prize |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...Brando's electric 1951 performance fueled a whole new generation of actors....[Restored material] significantly adds to the Sturm und Drung..." - Recommended 07/01/1994 p. 92Chicago Sun-Times
"...STREETCAR is one of the great ensemble pieces in the movies..." 11/12/1993 p.44 USA Today
"...Leigh, Hunter, Karl Malden and the fabulous art-set decorations all won Oscars here, though Brando's performance remains the No. 1 selling point..." 07/08/1994 p.3D Los Angeles Times
"...Even 52 after its initial release, this sultry melodrama about aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois still packs a wallop..." 04/27/2003 p.C29 Entertainment Weekly
"Together, Brando and Kazan created a new kind of leading man..." 07/16/2004 p.29 Total Film
5 stars out of 5 -- "Simply a masterful adap of Tennessee Williams' sultry, searing play and an affirmation of Marlon Brando's acting genius..." 06/01/2006 p.131 Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] retains is hothouse fascination." 12/01/2008 p.79 Chicago Sun-Times 10 of 10
Despite the overwhelming power of Brando's performance, "Streetcar" is one of the great ensemble pieces in the movies. Kim Hunter's Stella can be seen in this version as less of an enigma; we can see more easily why she was attracted to Stanley. Vivien Leigh's Blanche is a sexually hungry woman posing as a sad, wilting flower; the earlier version covered up some of the hunger. And Karl Malden's Mitch - Blanche's hapless gentleman caller - is more of a sap, now that we understand more fully who he is really courting, and why. - Roger Ebert
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