A streetcar named desire DVD 1951 Once last chance at love / Directed by Elia Kazan / Starring: Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin, John Goodman, Diane Lane / Written by Tennessee Williams

UPC 9337369013114

MADE IN EU

REGION 4 NTSC DVD

AUDIO: English mono

TOTAL RUNTIME: 150 MINUTES

English Summary:

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 American drama film, adapted from Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play of the same name. It tells the story of a southern belle, Blanche DuBois, who, after encountering a series of personal losses, leaves her aristocratic background seeking refuge with her sister and brother-in-law in a dilapidated New Orleans apartment building. The Broadway production and cast was converted to film with several changes.

Blanche DuBois, a middle-aged high school English teacher, arrives in New Orleans. She takes a streetcar named "Desire" ^[5] to the French Quarter, where her sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley Kowalski, live in a dilapidated tenement apartment. Blanche claims to be on leave from her teaching job due to her nerves and wants to stay with Stella and Stanley. Blanche's demure, refined manner is a stark contrast to Stanley's crude, brutish behavior, making them mutually wary and antagonistic. Stella welcomes having her sister as a guest, but Blanche often patronizes and criticizes her.

It is revealed that Blanche and Stella's family estate, Belle Reve, was lost to creditors; Blanche, widowed at a young age after her husband's suicide, is broke and had nowhere to go except to her sister. When Stanley suspects Blanche may be hiding inheritance money, she shows him paperwork proving the estate was foreclosed on. Stanley, looking for further proof, knocks some of Blanche's private papers to the floor. Weeping, she gathers them, saying they are poems from her dead husband. Stanley explains he was only looking out for his family, then announces Stella is pregnant.

Cast:

• Vivien Leigh as Blanche
• Marlon Brando as Stanley
• Kim Hunter as Stella
• Karl Malden as Mitch
• Rudy Bond as Steve
• Nick Dennis as Pablo
• Peg Hillias as Eunice
• Wright King as A Collector
• Ann Dere as The Matron
• Edna Thomas as The Mexican Woman
• Richard Garrick as A Doctor
• Mickey Kuhn as A sailor