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A Streetcar Named Desire

Elia Kazan’s game-changing film of Tennessee Williams’ stage hit brought Brando – and the Method – to the attention of filmgoers worldwide.

Melodrama 1951 125 mins

Director: Elia Kazan

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Overview

Heated tensions arise when ‘resting’ Mississippi teacher Blanche DuBois (Leigh) comes to stay with her sister Stella (Hunter) in the cramped New Orleans apartment she shares with her husband Stanley (Brando). Hot-tempered and unashamedly macho, Stanley has no time for Blanche’s insistent gentility... Making eloquent use of Harry Stradling’s black-and-white cinematography and Richard Day’s sets, Kazan creates an atmosphere of clammy, claustrophobic intensity, in which the different acting styles of Brando and Leigh (who’d performed in Olivier’s London production of the play) actually enhance the conflict between their characters. A classic, now gloriously restored.

Director

Elia Kazan

Featuring

Vivien Leigh , Marlon Brando , Kim Hunter and Karl Malden

Genres

Melodrama

Certificate

Moderate violence

Country

USA

Language

No Dialogue with English subtitles

Accessibility

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