Bibliograph

A streetcar named desire, Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; director of photography, Harry Stradling ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan

Type

Label

A streetcar named desire, Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; director of photography, Harry Stradling ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements

Main title

A streetcar named desire

Oclc number

66903119

Responsibility statement

Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; director of photography, Harry Stradling ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan

Runtime

122

Series statement

Tennessee Williams film collection

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 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

Table Of Contents

Disc 1. Movie: commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery -- disc 2. Special features: movie and audio outtakes, Marlon Brando screen test, feature-length profile: Elia Kazan, a director's journey, 5 documentaries

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification