WHV Press Release: A Streetcar Named Desire 60th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Book

“Director Elia Kazan and a simply superlative cast have fashioned a motion picture that throbs with passion and poignancy.“ -- New York Times, Bosley Crowther

A Streetcar Named Desire:

The Original Restored Version

debuts on Blu-ray April 10 in a

60^th Anniversary Edition from Warner Home Video

Tennessee Williams’ Renowned Drama Arrives as 40-Page Commemorative Blu-ray Book With Photos, Production Notes and More

Burbank, Calif., December 12, 2011 – A Streetcar Named Desire -- the film classic starring Marlon Brando and Oscar® winners Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden and directed by Elia Kazan -- will debut as A Streetcar Named Desire Blu-ray Book April 10 as Warner Home Video commemorates the 60^th anniversary of playwright Tennessee Williams’ masterwork.

A Streetcar Named Desire was nominated for 12 Academy Awards^® and won four, including three for acting. This edition of the film is A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Restored Version, the motion picture moviegoers would have seen had not censorship by the Legion of Decency occurred at the last minute. It features three minutes of footage thought to be lost until its rediscovery in the early 1990s. The new footageunderscores, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivienne Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski's (Kim Hunter) passion for her husband.

The Blu-ray Book contains 40-pages filled with dazzling photos, film history trivia and more. The set, with bonus features including five documentaries, and a commentary, will be available for $34.99 SRP. Order due date is March 6.

More About the Film

Williams -- from whose pen came stunning unforgettable characters, powerful portraits of the human condition and an incredible vision of life in the South -- stands with Eugene O’Neill and Arthur Miller as one of the three quintessentially eminent American playwrights. His classic Streetcar…was selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. 

A Streetcar Named Desire depicts a culture clash between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh), a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), a rising member of the industrial, inner-city immigrant class. Blanche is a Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her nymphomania and alcoholism.  Arriving at the house of her sister Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter), Stella fears Blanche’s arrival will upset the balance of her relationship with her husband Stanley, a primal, rough-hewn, brutish and sensual force of nature. He dominates Stella in every way, and she tolerates his offensive crudeness and lack of gentility largely because of her sexual need for him. Stanley’s friend and Blanche’s would-be suitor Mitch (Karl Malden) is similarly trampled along Blanche and Stanley’s collision course. Their final, inevitable confrontation results in Blanche’s mental annihilation.

A Streetcar Named Desire 60^th Anniversary Edition Special Features

·   Commentary with Karl Malden, film historian Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young

·   Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery

·   Movie and audio outtakes

·   Marlon Brando screen test

·   Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey documentary

·   Five insightful documentaries:

o        A Streetcar on Broadway

o        A Streetcar in Hollywood

o        Desire and Censorship

o        North and the South

o        An Actor Named Brando

MARKETING SUPPORT

TCM will support the release of A Streetcar Named Desire with programming of the film, on-air mention by TCM host Robert Osborne, online banners, TCM shopping newsletter, mention on the TCM Facebook fan page and an ad in the Now Playing Guide.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 60^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION BLU-RAY BOOK

Street Date: April 10, 2012

Order Due Date: March 6, 2012

Rating: PG

Feature Run time: 122 mins.

Pricing: $34.99 SRP

Catalog #: 1000202871

Now available for preorder