A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Watch Online Trailer

A Streetcar Named Desire is the film adaptation from the play by Tennessee Williams and directed by Elia Kazan. The film tells the drama story of the conflict between run down southern states and the exemplary industrial states in the north. Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.



A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Released: 01 Dec 1951
Runtime: 122 min
Rated: PG
Director: Elia Kazan
Writer(s): Tennessee Williams (screen play), Oscar Saul (adaptation), Tennessee Williams (based on the original play: "A Streetcar Named Desire" by)
Actors: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Awards: Won 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 15 nominations.
IMDB Ratings: 8.1



Plot: 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?