Title:
A streetcar named Desire
ISBN:
9780790795805
Edition:
Two-disc special ed.; Standard format.
Publication Information:
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2006.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
General 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 (disc 1): optional commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery (21 min.).
Special features (disc 2): "Elia Kazan : a director's journey" (76 min.); "A Streetcar on Broadway" (22 min.); "A Streetcar in Hollywood" (29 min.); "Censorship and desire" (17 min.); "North and the music of the South" (10 min.); "An actor named Brando" (9 min.); "Marlon Brando screen test for Rebel Without a Cause" (5 min.); Outtakes (16 minutes) ; Audio outtakes (17 min.).
Geographic Term:
Added Uniform Title:
Streetcar named Desire (Motion picture)
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 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.
System Details:
DVD, DUAL-LAYER; REGION 1; DOLBY DIGITAL MONO.
Language Note:
IN ENGLISH (CONTAINER ERRONEOUSLY STATES THAT DIALOG IS IN ENGLISH OR FRENCH), WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH, FRENCH OR SPANISH SUBTITLES.
CLOSED-CAPTIONED.
