DVD : A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085393893224
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 30
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages:
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 38932
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2006
Running Time: 122 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1951
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/02/2006 Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
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Rating: 
- An explosive masterpiece
Elia Kazan’s screen version of Tenessee William’s firey work is a non stop emotional ride. Marlon Brando revises his stage role as Stanley Kowalski, a working class man who lives in New Orleans with his wife Stella. There life is a roughly passionate one which intensifies when Stella’s southern belle sister Blanche DuBois arrives. Blanche, portrayed so beautifully and truly by Vivien Leigh, that her husband Sir Lawrence Olivier once commented on how it almost broke her to play this role. Blanche … Read More
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- a sure classic.
The film, A Streetcar Named Desire, is based ultimately on the extreme cultural differences between Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski. Blanche, a vicarious and unlucky Southern Belle, shows up on her sister’s (Stella) doorstep in New Orleans after arriving there on a streetcar route named “Desire.” Blanche has a rough background and is hesitant to share the truth of her visit with her sister and brother-in-law Stanley. She tells Stella and Stanley she lost the family mansion, Belle Reve, because … Read More
Rating: - street car
“A Streetcar Named Desire” represents how many people were during the time after the war. Mental and issues and alcohol problems. It’s a movie about a sister’s, Stella, triumph to continue to live her life after her sibling comes to stay with her and her husband. The sibling, named Blanche Dubios comes with emotional baggage that brings a strain to Stella and her husband Stanly’s marraige. Although Stella wants to cater to and care for her younger sister, she has to try to please her husband, who is … Read More
Rating: - Streetcar Review
Elia Kazan’s adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire is one to be reconed with. With the cast of superstars, such as Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, he was able to show the constraints of raw human emotion at both ends of the primitive and cultural ends. Stanley’s stone age actions towards and “ownership” qualities towards Stella is a pure contradicting parallel to the cultural qualities of Blanch. These two main characters battle throughout the movie, and each think they know just what the other is, either … Read More
Rating: - Kevin G “A Streetcar Named Desire” Review
“A Streetcar Named Desire” 11/20/08
By: Kevin Green
“A Streetcar Named Desire” was a brilliant depiction of a marital angst triumphing over sibling affection. Although Blanches’ (Vivien Leigh) performance was a bit too theatrical for the big screen it was still a performance well worth her academy award. Blanche’s only tie to reality, Stella (Kim Hunter), broke away from her and hence allowed Blanche to fall deeper into insanity.
Marlon Brando displayed a very natural … Read More
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