A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Cast

Marlon Brando
as Stanley Kowalski
Vivien Leigh
as Blanche DuBois
Kim Hunter
as Stella Kowalski
Karl Malden
as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell

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Genres & Description

Drama

8.0 / 10

Blanche DuBois, a high school English teacher with an aristocratic background from Auriol, Mississippi, decides to move to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans after creditors take over the family property, Belle Reve. Blanche has also decided to take a break from teaching as she states the situation has frayed her nerves. Knowing nothing about Stanley or the Kowalskis' lives, Blanche is shocked to find that they live in a cramped and run down ground floor apartment - which she proceeds to beautify by putting shades over the open light bulbs to soften the lighting - and that Stanley is not the gentleman that she is used to in men. As such, Blanche and Stanley have an antagonistic relationship from the start. Blanche finds that Stanley's hyper-masculinity, which often displays itself in physical outbursts, is common, coarse and vulgar, being common which in turn is what attracted Stella to him. Beyond finding Blanche's delicate ...

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Richard W

What writing. - @Tuesday, July 10, 2018 12:47 AM

araci scarpa

Excelent! - @Friday, August 12, 2016 7:07 PM

Mark Cabaniss

Say it with me: *STELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!* - @Wednesday, March 25, 2015 12:32 AM

leah busby

Men were betterlooking then Brando elvis Paul Newman James dean the list goes on - @Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:35 AM

leah busby

Love this movie and Brando was hot in those days wow - @Saturday, February 8, 2014 3:30 AM

RomanceWriter1

I have seen the movie and its really good. My parents disagree with me - @Sunday, December 22, 2013 9:52 PM

sunyasussan

okey well probably its better to read the book... - @Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:26 PM

noemistephanie93

Damn marlon brando was SOOO SEXY in this movie! Why cant guys all look like that now???? - @Sunday, September 22, 2013 6:10 PM

Karina Navarro

Normal 16 yr old girls: CHANNING TATUM!! Me: MARLON BRANDO!! xD - @Saturday, September 21, 2013 11:15 PM

John Rabbitt

Karl Malden and Brando did several films together. Malden was a genius. - @Saturday, September 14, 2013 6:15 PM

jose fiorelli

Realmente, Brando está soberbo nesse filme e, para um jovem ator, demonstra extraordinária coragem, ao fixar nas memórias a imagem de um cidadão sem escrúpulos. O filme todo é uma obra prima e surpreende a intensidade de sentimentos e o clima de tensão que se desperta e mantém, amplificado pela mediocridade do ambiente, que o cenário destaca. - @Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:56 PM

jose fiorelli

Great performance from Brando. Exciting movie. I think the introduction (theme and scene) is a masterpiece, creating the movie's mood. Thank you. - @Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:53 PM

emma clise

Well....Stanley did rape Blanche... - @Friday, July 26, 2013 12:51 AM

CurtisAlfeld

As much as I love this, Blanche is just so unlikable. She is entirely male dependent, and I actually hated her more than Stanley. I think the story would have been better without her. Stella is such a great character. - @Wednesday, July 24, 2013 4:54 AM

Cuasimodo2372

This is old as fuck - @Thursday, July 11, 2013 5:27 AM

Keith Abellanosa

This is like cinema masterpiece. - @Sunday, July 7, 2013 4:40 AM

GangGreen80

and it was only his second film - @Tuesday, March 5, 2013 4:05 PM

Nazaré Santos do Amaral

É um clásico inesquecível. Além disso, o Marlon Brando além de estar um verdadeiro deus grego, dá um verdadeiro show de interpretação nesse filme que é um marco de sua carreira. - @Monday, January 28, 2013 4:19 AM

lililollipopful

jaaaa:D haben letztens ne klausur darüber geschrieben!-.- war schön:D - @Monday, January 14, 2013 4:08 PM

lililollipopful

öh will ich mir das wirklich antun? - @Tuesday, November 27, 2012 3:41 PM

123ugugu

marlon brando look like an ancient greek statue so handsome - @Friday, August 17, 2012 11:44 PM

Chris Dorner

which explains why she won the oscar and marlon brando didnt right? - @Thursday, August 16, 2012 6:58 AM

Adorned Dreams

"Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." ... - @Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:54 AM

mrhandsomeschannel

marlon brando sounds like Santino "sony" Corleone... awkward!!! hahaha - @Saturday, April 21, 2012 3:41 PM

Nick Alexander

reading this book in English class! - @Monday, April 9, 2012 6:02 PM

Keith Abellanosa

The young sailor who helps Vivien Leigh onto the streetcar at the beginning of this film was played by Mickey Kuhn. If you didn't know, Mickey Kuhn played Beau Wilkes (the child of Olivia de Havilland's character Melanie) in Gone with the Wind. - @Sunday, April 8, 2012 12:03 PM

Keith Abellanosa

I don't even know what to say after watching this film... It's a film at its finest! Well written, brilliantly acted, everything was surreal! I felt disturbed a little, and shaken by the acting performances of Leigh and Brando, not to mention the supporting cast. It was a very powerful film! - @Sunday, April 8, 2012 8:36 AM

qotu01

@ardistar9 Tom Hardy as Stanley ! He'd walk it. - @Monday, April 2, 2012 1:28 PM

sockpuppetify

by far one of the best movies i have ever seen! i felt shaken and moved for a long time even after watching this classic - @Friday, March 30, 2012 2:29 AM

Katia Baghai

Focus On American Intellectual Film-Classics. Elia Kazan/Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1951) As An Unintended American Dystopia – From Streetcar As A Metaphor of Blanche’s Sublime Desire to Streetcar-Stanley Forerunners of Innocent Thugs In Politics, Business, Finance, War-making, Media and Religious Preaching In US of 21st Century victor enyutin - @Sunday, March 11, 2012 6:23 PM

Robert N. Washburn

RIPMB - @Tuesday, March 6, 2012 5:11 AM

Oldman5675

It's interesting that a British actresse's two most remembered roles were as southern belles. - @Wednesday, November 23, 2011 5:29 PM

tahitiancookie

@itskhuan ohohohoho shit :D awesome - @Sunday, November 13, 2011 7:15 PM

detroitMC313

I hope your left speakers works. - @Saturday, September 24, 2011 7:06 PM

Potatus Pommel

my grandma watched this in the cinema!!!!! - @Thursday, August 18, 2011 1:43 PM

EkseteraEksetera

Good Movie. Bad Trailer - @Wednesday, July 20, 2011 1:35 PM

Ann Edwards

Sexy slinky direction from Kazan and acting from Brando. But Leigh's delicate portrayal of a tormented woman on the cusp of madness is unforgettable. Not one false step or intonation, she's on the mark and pitch perfect all the way. Sure, Brando excites me (I'm old, not dead). But Leigh moves me almost unendurably. She made comparatively few films but gave two of the most memorable performances in movie history. - @Friday, December 10, 2010 8:18 PM

hana hope

this movie will be on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) on television tonight. i live in california, and here it will start at 5. - @Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:08 PM

bawoman

@LOLUK That makes 2 of us. - @Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:56 AM

Lucy Winkle

was marlon ever gorgeous or what? - @Thursday, August 12, 2010 9:20 AM

Strokeq

hot damn, marlon brando!!! - @Wednesday, February 3, 2010 4:41 AM

ashavari

lol i like vivien leigh better wiht dark hair. - @Saturday, June 6, 2009 7:48 PM

Jordan Herrick

i love old movie trailers. in new ones they imoly that a movie is going to be this incredible brilliant work of art, in the old ones they just straight out tell you. (: - @Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:12 PM

mazur .paulina

this trailer doesn't do this film justice! But I would recomment to watch the movie to anyone. i absolutely love everything about it - @Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:01 AM

Miriam Gross

it's amazing how wrong trailers can often get films. This one turns it into a melodrama, although that is to be expected from the time period... - @Friday, March 27, 2009 9:45 PM