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Features: DVD, Original, Director's Cut, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Notes
An honored film. A milestone in movie acting. A landmark in the fight against censorship. Winner of four Academy Awards®, an unprecedented three of them in the acting categories. A Streetcar Named Desire is all of these. And now it's even more.A Streetcar 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. If features three minutes of previously excised footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanch Dubois (Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. "In 1951, you had to guess at a lot of things that are now made clear," Roger Ebert notes. Catch all of the classic that introduced a new era in filmmaking. This Streetcar is the one you've been waiting for.
"Without doubt the Streetcar for the ages." Los Angeles Times
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 | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Production Notes | | Scene Access |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 3/24/1997 |
| Running Time: 125 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1951 | | Catalog ID: 36041 | | UPC: 00085393604127 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1952) |  | Karl Malden, Winner, Best Supporting Actor | | Vivien Leigh, Winner, Best Director | | Kim Hunter, Winner, Best Supporting Actress | | | Marlon Brando, Nominee, Best Actor | | | Elia Kazan, Nominee, Best Director | | | Charles K. Feldman, Nominee, Best Picture | | | Alex North, Nominee, Best Music, Original Score | | | Tenessee Williams, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay |
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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
...no performance had more influence on modern film acting styles than Brando's work as Stanley Kowalski... - Roger Ebert
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