A dramatic and disturbing film based on Tennessee Williams's play . It deals with the tarnished Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh is unforgettable as a fading southern belle) who moves to live in New Orleans with her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter) , but there things go wrong when she meets her brutish , heavy-drinking brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (a sweaty , animalistic Marlon Brando , a role who shot him to superstardom) in his rattrap New Orleand apartment . As Blanche is a sexually disturbed woman who lives in a world of illusion . Her world starts to crumble when she moves in with her sister, as circumstances become unbearable when rumors of Blanche's dark past begin knowing among neighbors and then the happenings go awry ...When she got there she met the brute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed. The Pulitzer Price Play of New Orleans' Latin Quarter...of a Lonely Girl...of Emotions Gone Savage!... Blanche, who wanted so much to stay a lady... Warner Bros. Bring the screen all the fire of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Well-deserved Academy Awards were garnered by Vivien Leigh as main actress , while Kim Hunter and Karl Malden won as secondary actors, providing all of them terrific and hypnotic qualities on their extraordinary interpretations . The excellent production design is first-rate , being competently set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War Two . Main and support cast are frankly magnificent delivering excellent interpretation. Vivien Leigh is awesome as a fragile and neurotic woman who has suffered a series of calamities in her thunderous life . Marlon Brando gives a terrific acting as the abusive ,sinewy , brutish brother-in-law who believes to live under Louisiana's Napoleonic code what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband. They're very well accompanied by a great support cast , such as : Kim Hunter , Karl Malden , Rudy Bond and Nick Dennis. However , one reservation , all the roles are just fairly unbelieable and really exaggerated with the exception for Kim Hunter.
The motion picture was stunningly directed by Elia Kazan and considered to be one of the best films of the year , as he said it was one of his favorites of all the movies he made . Although gloomy and sordid throughout A Streetcar Named Desire fascinates rather than alienates the audience , thanks to the unpredictability of the play and riveting art decoration and set decoration that were both also rewarded with Academy Awards. During his long career, Kazan won two Oscars as Best Director and received an Honorary Oscar, won three Tony Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Kazan directed four performers to Best Actress Oscars: Celeste Holm, Kim Hunter, Eva Marie Saint and Jo Van Fleet. Greek-Turkish director Elia Kazan who being a child emigrated along with his family to United States made magnificent films . Some of them describe memories , emotions and infancy images , narrating the persecution to Greeks and Armenians by Turkish that finished in genocide as in ¨America , America¨ . Kazan directed a string of successful films as ¨Gentleman's agreement¨, ¨Man on a tightrope¨, ¨panic in the streets¨, ¨Pinky¨ , ¨Splendor in the grass¨, ¨Baby doll¨, ¨the engagement¨, ¨a Street named desire¨, ¨East of Eden¨ and especially his greatest hit : ¨On the waterfront¨ , the latter includes biographic elements ; in fact, Kazan worked in this waterfront area in 1934 during the height of the Great Depression .
There are other versions , but roughly inferior , based on the classic play by Tennessee Williams titled ¨A Streetcar Named Desire¨ , such as : 1984 by John Erman Ann-Margret as Blanche DuBois , Treat Williams as Stanley Kowalski and Beverly D'Angelo as Stella DuBois Kowalski. And 1995 rendition by Glenn Jordan with Jessica Lange , Alec Baldwin , Diane Lane , Randy Quaid and John Goodman.
Well-deserved Academy Awards were garnered by Vivien Leigh as main actress , while Kim Hunter and Karl Malden won as secondary actors, providing all of them terrific and hypnotic qualities on their extraordinary interpretations . The excellent production design is first-rate , being competently set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following World War Two . Main and support cast are frankly magnificent delivering excellent interpretation. Vivien Leigh is awesome as a fragile and neurotic woman who has suffered a series of calamities in her thunderous life . Marlon Brando gives a terrific acting as the abusive ,sinewy , brutish brother-in-law who believes to live under Louisiana's Napoleonic code what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband. They're very well accompanied by a great support cast , such as : Kim Hunter , Karl Malden , Rudy Bond and Nick Dennis. However , one reservation , all the roles are just fairly unbelieable and really exaggerated with the exception for Kim Hunter.
The motion picture was stunningly directed by Elia Kazan and considered to be one of the best films of the year , as he said it was one of his favorites of all the movies he made . Although gloomy and sordid throughout A Streetcar Named Desire fascinates rather than alienates the audience , thanks to the unpredictability of the play and riveting art decoration and set decoration that were both also rewarded with Academy Awards. During his long career, Kazan won two Oscars as Best Director and received an Honorary Oscar, won three Tony Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Kazan directed four performers to Best Actress Oscars: Celeste Holm, Kim Hunter, Eva Marie Saint and Jo Van Fleet. Greek-Turkish director Elia Kazan who being a child emigrated along with his family to United States made magnificent films . Some of them describe memories , emotions and infancy images , narrating the persecution to Greeks and Armenians by Turkish that finished in genocide as in ¨America , America¨ . Kazan directed a string of successful films as ¨Gentleman's agreement¨, ¨Man on a tightrope¨, ¨panic in the streets¨, ¨Pinky¨ , ¨Splendor in the grass¨, ¨Baby doll¨, ¨the engagement¨, ¨a Street named desire¨, ¨East of Eden¨ and especially his greatest hit : ¨On the waterfront¨ , the latter includes biographic elements ; in fact, Kazan worked in this waterfront area in 1934 during the height of the Great Depression .
There are other versions , but roughly inferior , based on the classic play by Tennessee Williams titled ¨A Streetcar Named Desire¨ , such as : 1984 by John Erman Ann-Margret as Blanche DuBois , Treat Williams as Stanley Kowalski and Beverly D'Angelo as Stella DuBois Kowalski. And 1995 rendition by Glenn Jordan with Jessica Lange , Alec Baldwin , Diane Lane , Randy Quaid and John Goodman.