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The Tennessee Williams Film Collection (A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) (Two-Disc Special Edition) / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (Deluxe Edition) / Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) / The Night of the Iguana (1964) / Baby Doll / The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando Director: Elia Kazan Rating: PG
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A Streetcar Named Desire: 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?
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the story of a Southern family in crisis, focusing on the turbulent relationship between Maggie the Cat (Elizabeth Taylor) and Brick (Paul Newman), and their interaction with Brick’s family over the course of a weekend gathering at the family estate. Brick, an aging football hero, has neglected his wife and further infuriates her by ignoring his brother’s attempts to gain control of the family fortune. Although Big Daddy (Burl Ives) has cancer and will not celebrate another birthday, his doctors and his family have conspired to keep this information from him and his wife. His relatives are in attendance and attempt to present themselves in the best possible light, hoping to receive the definitive share of Big Daddy’s enormous wealth.
Sweet Bird of Youth: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Madeleine Sherwood and Ed Begley recreated their stage roles in this bravura film version which featured Shirley Knight. Begley won Best Supporting Oscar and Page and Knight were nominated. Sex, money, hypocrisy, financial and emotional blackmail are familiar elements in Williams’ literary realm and combine powerfully in Sweet Bird of Youth as Chance (Newman) battles his private demons in a desperate bid to redeem his wasted life and recapture his lost sweet bird of youth.
Handsome Chance Wayne (Newman) never found the Hollywood stardom he craved, but he’s always been a star with the ladies. Now, back in his sleepy, sweaty Gulf Coast hometown, he’s involved with two of them: a washed-up, drug-and-vodka-addled movie queen. And the girl he left behind…and in trouble.
The Night of the Iguana: In a remote Mexican seacoast town, a defrocked Episcopal priest (Richard Burton), ruined by alcoholism and insanity, struggles to pull his shattered life together. And the three women in his life – an earthy hotel owner (Ava Gardner), an ethereal artist (Deborah Kerr) and a hot-eyed, willful teenager (Sue Lyons) – can help save him. Or destroy him.
Baby Doll (1956): The film centers around cotton-mill owner Archie (Karl Malden) who’s going through tough times but at least has his luscious, child-bride (Carroll Baker) with whom he’ll be allowed to consummate when she’s 20. Rival Silva Vaccaro (Eli Wallach) thinks Archie may have set fire to his mill and takes an erotic form of Sicilian vengeance.
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961): Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty are lady and lover in this tender adaptation of a Tennessee Williams novella directed by Broadway veteran Jose Quintero. Leigh won her second Oscar for Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire; their reteaming creates a similar spell – at once romantic, sinister and nearly explosive. Adding spice to the combustion of the two leads are Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee Lotte Lenya as a Contessa who “arranges” romances in which she has a financial stake and Coral Browne as Karen’s savvy best friend. |
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Starring:
Vivien Leigh | Marlon Brando | Kim Hunter | Karl Malden | Rudy Bond | Nick Dennis | Peg Hillias | Wright King | ...more
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Directed By:
Elia Kazan | Richard Brooks | Richard Brooks | John Huston | Jose Quintero
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Genre:
Drama, Thriller/Suspense
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DVD Release Date:
May 2, 2006
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Format: Region 1
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Rating:
PG
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Regional Coding:
R1:
Will only play on North American Region 1 or multi-region DVD players.
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Number of Discs:
7
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Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish
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Screen Ratio:
Anamorphic (16:9), Full Screen Edition - 1.33:1, Widescreen Edition - 1.85:1, Widescreen Edition - 2.35:1
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English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) | |
Studio:
Warner Brothers
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Catalogue Number:
DVE075064
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UPC/Barcode Number:
012569750647
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Black & White: Yes
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Closed-Captioned: Yes
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Color: Yes
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- A Streetcar Named Desire:
- Commentary by Karl Malden and film historian Rudy Behlmer
- Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery
- Movie and audio outtakes
- Marlon Brando screen test
- Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey documentary
- 5 new insightful documentaries: A Streetcar on Broadway, A Streetcar in Hollywood, Desire and Censorship, North and the South, An Actor Named Brando
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof:
- Commentary by biographer Donald Spoto, author of The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
- New featurette Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Somebody Up There Likes Him
- Theatrical trailer
- Sweet Bird of Youth:
- New featurette Sweet Bird of Youth: Broken Dreams and Damaged People
- Never-before-seen Geraldine Page and Rip Torn screen test
- Theatrical trailer
- Night of the Iguana:
- Commentary by John Huston
- New featurette The Night of the Iguana: Dangerous Creatures
- Vintage featurette On the Trail of the Iguana
- 1964 premiere highlights
- Theatrical trailers
- Baby Doll:
- New featurette Baby Doll: See No Evil
- Baby Doll trailer gallery
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone:
- New featurette The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone: I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow
- Theatrical trailer
- Scene Access
- Interactive Menus
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