Additional information for A Streetcar Named Desire, which has a domestic theatrical release set for September 18, 1951. The film is being distributed by Warner Bros Pictures and has not yet been rated. A Streetcar Named Desire has a total running time of 122 minutes.
13
Argentina
PG
Australia
K-16
Finland
16
Norway
M/12
Portugal
15
Sweden
12A
UK
Approved
USA
PG
Canada
Unrated
France
12
South Korea
PG
New Zealand
18
West Germany
12
Brazil
18
Netherlands
122min
125min
Un tranvía llamado deseo
Argentina
Un tranvía llamado deseo
Mexico
Un tranvía llamado deseo
Peru
Un tranvía llamado deseo
Spain
Endstation Sehnsucht
Austria
Endstation Sehnsucht
West Germany
Tramlijn Begeerte
Belgium
Tramlijn Begeerte
Netherlands
Un tramway nommé désir
Canada
Un tramway nommé désir
France
Viettelysten vaunu
Finland
Viettelysten vaunu
Finland
Λεωφορείον ο Πόθος
Greece
Трамвай Желание
Bulgaria
A vágy villamosa
Hungary
En sporvogn til begjær
Norway
Ihtiras tramvayi
Turkey
Leoforeion o pothos
Greece
Linje Lusta
Sweden
Omstigning til Paradis
Denmark
Tramvaj Pozelenje
Slovenia
Tramvaj zvan ceznja
Yugoslavia
Tramvaj zvani želja
Serbia
Tramwaj zwany pozadaniem
Poland
Um Eléctrico Chamado Desejo
Portugal
Uma Rua Chamada Pecado
Brazil
Un tram che si chiama Desiderio
Italy
Un tramvai numit dorinta
Romania
Un tramvia anomenat desig
Spain
Un tramway nommé Désir
Belgium
September , 1951
Italy
September 18, 1951
USA
September 19, 1951
USA
December 01, 1951
West Germany
December 17, 1951
Brazil
January 18, 1952
Italy
January 25, 1952
Finland
February 07, 1952
Norway
February 13, 1952
Sweden
March 20, 1952
Argentina
March 28, 1952
France
April 03, 1952
Hong Kong
April 24, 1952
Belgium
April 24, 1952
Netherlands
May 10, 1952
Japan
June 19, 1952
Austria
July 03, 1952
Australia
September 18, 1952
Denmark
September 18, 1952
Greece
November 14, 1952
Portugal
October 15, 1956
Spain
November 18, 1972
Japan
June 15, 1973
Italy
October 18, 1974
Finland
November 12, 2003
France
October 14, 2006
Italy
August 27, 2008
Norway
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Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Elia Kazan,who directed the Broadway play on which the black and white film is based, invited Marlon Brando, the male lead, and Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, his supporting cast, to repeat their Broadway triumphs in the film remake.Brando plays Stanley, a poor boy who grew up tainted by ethnic slurs, made financially stable by the fortunes of the second world war. He does well as a blue collar travelling salesman, moves to New Orleans and marries Stella (Hunter), daughter of an Aristocratic MIssissippi family anxious to escape the war;s invitable destruction of her family's land, wealth, property and social status. Stanley has never met his sister-in-law Blanche, the female lead of the play ,Vivien Leigh in the movie remake. Blanche arranges a visit to see her sister in New Orleans and shows up on Stanley's doorstop obviously annoyed that there is neither a guest bedroom for herself nor a master bedroom for her sister and brother-in-law, in their cramped, dingy apartment in a bustling quarter of the city. The tensions of wartime emergency cohabitation of family members somehow forced to move in with each other in tight, cramped quarters because of the fortunes of war are noted when it is obvious that Blanche and Stanley immediately get on each others' nerves, especially when Blanche, who passes herself off as the only Aristocrat in her new neighborhood, is the only one in her new neighborhood who actually resorts to tough bar language and ethnic slurs in passing conversation. This becomes no ordinary domestic quarrel when their tensions escalate beyond a war of words to hurtful, spiteful deeds and then to climatic physical violence. Hollywood icons Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh are given close, tight photography in their lengthy scenes of escalating conflict, played with such deep insight and such technical brilliance that the audience is given pause, from moment to moment. to decide whether one really has a point and the other should really be apprehended by the authorities. Stanley first wants to know why Blanche seems to be planning to stay for life and what happened to his wife's claim on the family fortune, land, property and social status. Blanche wants Stanley to give up his weekly card game and his weekly bowling tournament with his friends including Mitch (Malden), to stay at home always sweating in his dirtied work clothes because he will have no place to wash and change with a lady in his house, sitting silent like a statue, until he decides it is time to just turn his paycheck over to Stella and move out so Blanche can rule the roost.
When Blanche attracts the attention of lonely Mitch who sees the remnants of her Aristocratic upbringing, Stanley investigates, through a friend travelling in Mississippi, why his emotionally disturbed, alcoholic, child molesting sister-in-law was fired from her job and kicked out of her boarding house. A telling interlude has Stanley striking Stella for interfering with his treatment of Blanche. She escapes to the upstairs apartment of her landlady (Peg Hillias), but is so dependent upon Stanley that she returns to him when he goes into the yard and calls for her to come back. Things do not go well for Blanche when Stella goes to the hospital to give birth to her child just after a teenage boy accuses her of making improper advances when he came to her door to collect money for Stanley's periodical subscription and Mitch dumps her. There is surrealistic moment, to be individually sorted out by each viewer, when Blanche insists she is going to cut up Stanley's face with the jagged edges of a broken liquor bottle and then insists he is going to rape her. The play and the movie cuts from the blackout to a scene some time later when Stella is putting her baby to sleep in the front yard, Stanley is having his card game over, and authorities arrive from the local mental institution to put Blanche away for life.The landlady calls Stella to the bathroom, where Blanche is soaking up her cares in another hot water tub and wants the ladies to dress her in her faded, fake finery so a nonexistent gentleman friend can escort her on a nonexistent world cruise. Stella, Mitch and the landlady seem in agreement that Blanche is an innocent flower ravaged by wartime whom Stanley destroyed with his crude bullying.
Elia Kazan
Director(s)
Tennessee Williams
Oscar Saul
Tennessee Williams
Writer(s)
Charles K. Feldman
producer
Producer(s)
Alex North
Composer(s)
Blanche
Vivien Leigh
Stanley
Marlon Brando
Stella
Kim Hunter
Mitch
Karl Malden
Steve
Rudy Bond
Pablo
Nick Dennis
Eunice
Peg Hillias
A Collector
Wright King
A Doctor
Richard Garrick
The Matron
Ann Dere
The Mexican Woman
Edna Thomas
A Sailor
Mickey Kuhn
Foreman (uncredited)
Mel Archer
Bit Part (uncredited)
Dahn Ben Amotz
Giggling Woman with Eunice (uncredited)
Marietta Canty
(uncredited)
John George
Vendor (uncredited)
John Gonetos
Street Vendor (uncredited)
Chester Jones
Policeman (uncredited)
Lyle Latell
Passerby (uncredited)
Maxie Thrower
Passerby (uncredited)
Charles Wagenheim
Vendor (uncredited)
John B. Williams
Vendor (uncredited)
Buck Woods
Director(s)
Oscar Saul
Tennessee Williams
Writer(s)
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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