A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Elia Kazan
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Actor: Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Marlon Brando, Rudy Bond, Vivien LeighDirector: Elia Kazan
Brand: LEIGH,VIVIEN
Cinematographer: Harry Stradling Sr.
Editor: David Weisbart
Producer: Charles K. Feldman
Writer: Oscar Saul
Writer: Tennessee Williams
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-02
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
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- A Streeetcar 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. It features three minutes of previously unseen footage underscoring, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's
Movie Reviews of A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: A Compromised Masterpiece
Summary: 4 Stars
I absolutely hate to deduct a star from this movie. It's my favorite play, but therein lies the problem. Williams and Kazan were forced to alter much of the dialog, and more specifically, the ending of this movie to fit censorship standards. As happy as it makes me feel to see Stella not go back to Stanley in the end, I know that's not the way it's meant to be. Neither is Mitch supposed to stand up for Blanche at the end. This is a great movie. The acting (specifically on Leigh and Brando's end) is superb. The cinematography and general direction is beautiful. It deserves all of it's awards, and it's reputation. It's the standard by which I judge all other Blanche and Stanley's by, but I simply cannot overlook the horrible injustice that was done in editing the story to fit someone's arbitrary moral standings. The fact that this movie will forever be compromised is one of the greatest tragedies in American cinema. It's just awful, and if I loved the story any less I would give it a 1 star rating just to register my disgust.
Summary of A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Follows the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 2-MAY-2006
Media Type: DVD
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
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