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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304039502
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Special Edition, NTSC
ISBN: 6304039506
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogSpanish (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: June 18, 1996
Running Time: 131 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1951
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Stunning
I continue to be impressed by young Brando. I grew up hearing how much an acting genius Brando was in his hey day and I thought for the most part he was over-rated. Course, I was coming from the angle of the older Brando. Now after watching On the Waterfront and now Streetcar, I've been more than blown away. Brando absolutely deserves his accolades. In streetcar, he plays Stanley to the tee. You don't catch him acting at all. You whole heartedly believe him as this animal of a husband and ... Read More
Rating: - Magnificent Interpretation
Elia Kazan's "Streetcar Named Desire" is a wonderful interpretation of William's classic play. Like many of Tennessee William's plays "Streetcar" depicts the moral ruination of the post-civil war South. Blanche Dubois, in particular, is tragic and represents a "belle idee" gone hopelessly wrong. We learn how she has tried but failed to hold the old family home and honor intact. As a school teacher in Oriole, Mississippi she has failed in the most terrible way possible. She has not only prostituted ... Read More
Rating: - A Streetcar Named Desire
One of the best movies ever made, great performances all around, especially Brando, even though he was the only main actor in the movie that didn't win an Oscar. DVD quality superb.
Rating:  - A classic worty of the title.
Elia Kazan's 1951 classic captures the liquor drenched ambience of post-war New Orleans and inserts the beauty of Williams's characters as they live out their lives of "quiet desperation." Vivien Leigh's Academy Award winning performance as Blanch Dubois strained the limits of her emotional stability; according to her husband Laurence Olivier. Her commitment is evident in this complex portrayal of a southern belle who looses the battle for sanity. Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden all turn in deeply ... Read More
Rating: - Vivien Leigh's performance among the 20th century's very best.
There is really not much one can add by way of commenting on the magnificence of Miss Leigh's performance here. Perhaps Mr. Williams said it best when he told her that she brought aspects of Blanche's character to the surface, that he, himself never imagined.
That is not in any way to minimize the interpretations of Jessica Tandy, (who originated the role on Broadway) or, of Judith Evelyn, (and Miss Evelyn must have been superb as, in a sense, she too, was born to play Blanche.)
And ... Read More
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