A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Movie: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)


  • Director: Elia Kazan

  • Release Date: 3 April 1952 (Hong Kong)

  • Writers: Tennessee Williams (original play "A Streetcar Named Desire") Oscar Saul (adaptation)  

  • Run Time: 122 min | USA:125 min (re-release)

  • Country: USA

  • Genre: Drama  



Tagline: ...When she got there she met the brute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed.  

Trivia: Despite giving the definitive portrayal of Stanley Kowalski, Marlon Brando said he privately detested the character. However, it should be added that Brando was an eccentric character who loved misleading people and playing pranks.
 

Goofs: Continuity: During conversation about Napoleonic Code between Stella and Stanley, plate Stanley has been eating off disappears off top of trunk which is suddenly open.
 

"Blanche is in real need of a protector at this stage in her life when circumstances lead her into paying a visit to her younger sister Stella in New Orleans. She doesn't understand how Stella, who is expecting her first child, could have picked a husband so lacking in refinement. Stanley Kowalski's buddies come over to the house to play cards and one of them, Mitch, finds Blanche attractive until Stanley tells him about what kind of a woman Blanche really is. What will happen when Stella goes to the hospital to have her baby and just Blanche and her brother-in-law are in the house? Written by Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>"

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