Rating: PG
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/02/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 122 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
In the classic play by
Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by
Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle
Blanche DuBois (
Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister,
Stella (
Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans.
Stella's boorish husband,
Stanley Kowalski (
Marlon Brando), not only regards
Blanche's aristocratic affectations as a royal pain but also thinks she's holding out on inheritance money that rightfully belongs to
Stella. On the fringes of sanity,
Blanche is trying to forget her checkered past and start life anew. Attracted to
Stanley's friend
Mitch (
Karl Malden), she glosses over the less savory incidents in her past, but she soon discovers that she cannot outrun that past, and the stage is set for her final, brutal confrontation with her brother-in-law.
Brando,
Hunter, and
Malden had all starred in the original Broadway version of
Streetcar, although the original
Blanche had been
Jessica Tandy.
Brando lost out to
Humphrey Bogart for the 1951 Best Actor Oscar, but
Leigh,
Hunter, and
Malden all won Oscars.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
