“A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Restored Version” Debuts On Blu-Ray April 10 In A 60th Anniversary Edition From Warner Home Video
(December 12, 2011 – Burbank, CA) – “A Streetcar Named Desire” -- the film classic starring Marlon Brando and Oscar winners Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden and directed by Elia Kazan -- will debut as “A Streetcar Named Desire Blu-ray Book” April 10 as Warner Home Video commemorates the 60th anniversary of playwright Tennessee Williams’ masterwork.
“A Streetcar Named Desire” was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won four, including three for acting. This edition of the film is “A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Restored Version,” the motion picture moviegoers would have seen had not censorship by the Legion of Decency occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of footage thought to be lost until its rediscovery in the early 1990s. The new footage underscores, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivienne Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for her husband.
The Blu-ray Book contains 40-pages filled with dazzling photos, film history trivia and more. The set, with bonus features including five documentaries, and a commentary, will be available for $34.99 SRP. Order due date is March 6.
More About The Film:
Williams -- from whose pen came stunning unforgettable characters, powerful portraits of the human condition and an incredible vision of life in the South -- stands with Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller as one of the three quintessentially eminent American playwrights. His classic Streetcar…was selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.
“A Streetcar Named Desire” depicts a culture clash between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh), a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), a rising member of the industrial, inner-city immigrant class. Blanche is a Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her nymphomania and alcoholism. Arriving at the house of her sister Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter), Stella fears Blanche’s arrival will upset the balance of her relationship with her husband Stanley, a primal, rough-hewn, brutish and sensual force of nature. He dominates Stella in every way, and she tolerates his offensive crudeness and lack of gentility largely because of her sexual need for him. Stanley’s friend and Blanche’s would-be suitor Mitch (Karl Malden) is similarly trampled along Blanche and Stanley’s collision course. Their final, inevitable confrontation results in Blanche’s mental annihilation.
“A Streetcar Named Desire” 60th Anniversary Edition Special Features:###
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• Commentary with Karl Malden, film historian Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young
• Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery
• Movie and audio outtakes
• Marlon Brando screen test
• “Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey” documentary
• Five insightful documentaries:
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o “A Streetcar on Broadway”
o “A Streetcar in Hollywood”
o “Desire and Censorship”
o “North and the South”
o “An Actor Named Brando”