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Uniform Title Streetcar named Desire (Motion picture : 1951)
Title A streetcar named Desire / Warner Bros. Pictures presents an Elia Kazan production ; screenplay by Tennessee Williams ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.

Publication Info. Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2006.
1951.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  DVD STREETCAR DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  DVD CLASSIC FILM STREETCAR DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD STREETCA    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  DVD STR DISCS 1-2    DUE 09-28-21 Billed
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  CLASSIC DVD STR    DUE 04-04-24
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  AD DVD STREET DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Department  DVD STREETCAR DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  DVD STREETCAR    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Balcony  AV DVD 818 W727ST DISC 1-2    Check Shelf

Edition Two-disc special edition.
Description 2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, region 1, standard presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Cast Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis, Peg Hillias, Wright King, Richard Garrick, Ann Dere, Edna Thomas.
Credits Film editor, David Weisbart ; original music by, Alex North ; musical direction by, Ray Heindorf ; adaptation by. Oscar Saul ; director of photography, Harry Stradling
Note Based upon the original play : A Streetcar Named Desire / by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.
Special features: Commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery ; Movie and audio outtakes ; Marlon Brando screen test ; Feature-length profile : Elia Kazan : a director's journey ; 5 new insightful documentaries : A Streetcar on Broadway, A Streetcar in Hollywood, Censorship and desire, North and the music of the South, An actor named Brando.
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. He sets about discovering everything else he can about her past, and tension between Blanche and Stanley is further intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.
Audience MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements.
Awards 1951 Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role; Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Actress in a Supporting Role; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White.
Language English or French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Lust -- Drama.
Sisters -- Drama.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.
New Orleans (La.) -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Kazan, Elia.
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
Saul, Oscar.
Stradling, Harry, 1901-1970.
North, Alex. Composer.
Feldman, Charles K., 1904-1968.
Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967.
Brando, Marlon.
Hunter, Kim, 1922-2002.
Malden, Karl.
Bond, Rudy, 1912-1982.
Dennis, Nick.
King, Wright.
Garrick, Richard T., 1878-1962.
Dere, Ann, 1868-1954.
Thomas, Edna, 1885-1974.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
Warner Home Video (Firm)
ISBN 0790795809
9780790795805
Standard No. 085393893224
Music No. 38932 Warner Home Video
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