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A Streetcar Named Desire
Brando is at his electrifying best in Kazan’s hothouse film of Tennessee Williams’ play.
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Director
Elia Kazan
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With
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
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USA 1951. 126min
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Digital
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Certificate
12A
Kazan’s film of Tennessee Williams’ play about tensions arising in a marriage when the wife’s troubled sister comes to stay had Brando, Hunter and Malden reprising their stage roles and Leigh bringing a different kind of theatricality as the demure Blanche. Kazan rarely opens up the drama, creating instead a hothouse intensity of interior emotions. The uniformly excellent performances stick in the mind.
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