A streetcar named Desire [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; screen play by Tennessee Williams ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.
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 and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.
Record details
- ISBN: 0780666879
- ISBN: 978078066687
- Physical Description: 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Based upon the original play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick. Special features: commentary by Karl Malden and film historians: Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando. |
Target Audience Note: | Rating: PG; for thematic elements. |
System Details Note: | DVD; full screen; Dolby digital mono; region 1; dual-layer format. |
Language Note: | English or French dialogue; English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
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Subject: | Man-woman relationships > Drama. Lust > Drama. Sisters > Drama. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Drama. New Orleans (La.) > Drama. |
Genre: | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Fiction films. Feature films. Film adaptations. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Creston Public Library | DVD FIC STR (Text)
Acquisition Type: Donated |
35140001188716 | Fiction Videos | Volume hold | Available | - |