A Streetcar Named Desire

TBC122 min

Synopsis

In the sticky heat of New Orleans’s French Quarter, Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh), a small-town beauty who feels her best years are behind her, arrives at the modest apartment of her sister Stella (Kim Hunter). Her presence upsets the already awkward balance between Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), a dominating bully with an explosive temper.
Elia Kazan’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s sweltering melodrama features an early and career-defining performance from Brando, an early expression of the so-called ‘Method’ style of acting that would have such a marked influence on American cinema over the coming decades.