A streetcar named Desire [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; screen play by Tennessee Williams ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.

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Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 3000033667 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010.Description: 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

0780666879
9780780666870

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Streetcar named Desire (Motion picture)

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791.43/72 22

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PN1997 .S74 2010

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Screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.

Cast: Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando.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 Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Three Hour Reserve	Karen H. Huntsman Library Items Available at the Front Desk	DVD 791.4372 St834	1	Available		38060007418874		Introduction to Literature Spring Semester

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DVD; full screen; Dolby digital mono; region 1; dual-layer format.

English or French dialogue; English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

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Karl Malden, Kim Hunter, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando.

Based upon the original play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick.

Rating: PG; for thematic elements.

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 Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.

Special features: commentary by Karl Malden and film historians: Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young ; Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery.

Screen play by Tennessee Williams ; adaptation by Oscar Saul ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; directed by Elia Kazan.

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