- A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
- Commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young
- Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery
- Feature-length documentary: Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
- Movie and audio outtakes
- Marlon Brando screen test
- Five new documentaries: A Streetcar on Broadway, A Streetcar in Hollywood, Censorship and Desire, North and the Music of the South, and An Actor Named Brando
- Black and white, 1.33 aspect ratio
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Deluxe Edition)
- Commentary by biographer Donald Spoto, author of "The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams"
- New featurette Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Playing Cat and Mouse
- Theatrical trailer
- Color, 1.85 anamorphic widescreen
- Sweet Bird of Youth
- New featurette Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
- Vintage Geraldine Page and Rip Torn screen test
- Color, 2.35 anamorphic widescreen
- The Night of the Iguana
- New featurette The Night of the Iguana: Houston's Gamble
- Vintage featurette On the Trail of the Iguana
- Theatrical trailers
- Black and white, 1.85 anamorphic widescreen
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- New featurette The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone: Looking for Love in All the Dark Corners
- Baby Doll
- New featurette
- Trailer gallery
- Black and white, 1.33
- Bonus disc: Tennessee Williams' South
Tennessee Williams Film Collection On DVD
Actor : Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Paul Newman, Warren Beatty
Director: Richard Brooks, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Jos Quintero
Genre: Drama
Year: N/A
Studio: Warner Home Video
Length: 518
Released: May 2, 2006
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English, French
subtitles: English, Spanish, French
DESCRIPTION:
Kazan also directed Baby Doll, which Williams scripted from a couple of one-act plays. This outrageous sex comedy casts the excellent Carroll Baker as the 19-year-old wife of middle-aged Karl Malden, who anxiously awaits the day he can finally consummate his maddening marriage; immigrant cotton magnate Eli Wallach shows up at Malden's crumbling plantation house just in time to take the bloom off the rose, as it were. Famous for being condemned in 1956, Baby Doll remains a very modern (and gloriously dirty) movie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Richard Brooks, faithfully brings three of Williams's indelible characters to the screen, even if the script discreetly changes the original stage text: the hot Maggie the Cat (Elizabeth Taylor), her reluctant husband Brick (Paul Newman), and Brick's rich Big Daddy (Burl Ives). All three performers act the lights out.
Sweet Bird of Youth reunites Paul Newman with director Brooks, and also showcases Geraldine Page's performance as an aging film star tagging along with young stud Newman to his Southern home town. Some of Williams' more depraved touches are toned down, but the milieu is unmistakable and the movie is intense. The Night of the Iguana gives Richard Burton perhaps his finest hour onscreen: as Williams' dissolute defrocked priest, playing tour guide in Puerto Vallarta to tour groups of nattering biddies. The movie has director John Huston's sympathy for life's losers, as well as a trio of women built to torment Burton's reverend: Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, and Sue Lyon. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, based on Williams's novel, is not a great movie, but gives Vivien Leigh a good workout as a wounded actress dallying with Italian gigolo Warren Beatty.
Tennessee Williams' South is a 1973 documentary featuring some marvelous observations from Williams, as he holds court for filmmaker Harry Rasky. It also has long scenes from his plays, enacted by good folks such as Maureen Stapleton, Colleen Dewhurst, and Burl Ives. Especially valuable is a Streetcar sequence with Jessica Tandy re-creating her original role as Blanche. Williams himself reads the narration from The Glass Menagerie, a privileged moment. This is not an exhaustive Williams set (Joseph Mankiewicz's Suddenly, Last Summer and Sidney Lumet's The Fugitive Kind are among the best Williams films), but it maps out the steamy, tortured landscape awfully well. --Robert Horton
Product Description
Special Features:
Actor : Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Paul Newman, Warren Beatty
Director: Richard Brooks, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Jos Quintero
Genre: Drama
Year: N/A
Studio: Warner Home Video
Length: 518
Released: May 2, 2006
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English, French
subtitles: English, Spanish, French
DESCRIPTION:
Kazan also directed Baby Doll, which Williams scripted from a couple of one-act plays. This outrageous sex comedy casts the excellent Carroll Baker as the 19-year-old wife of middle-aged Karl Malden, who anxiously awaits the day he can finally consummate his maddening marriage; immigrant cotton magnate Eli Wallach shows up at Malden's crumbling plantation house just in time to take the bloom off the rose, as it were. Famous for being condemned in 1956, Baby Doll remains a very modern (and gloriously dirty) movie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by Richard Brooks, faithfully brings three of Williams's indelible characters to the screen, even if the script discreetly changes the original stage text: the hot Maggie the Cat (Elizabeth Taylor), her reluctant husband Brick (Paul Newman), and Brick's rich Big Daddy (Burl Ives). All three performers act the lights out.
Sweet Bird of Youth reunites Paul Newman with director Brooks, and also showcases Geraldine Page's performance as an aging film star tagging along with young stud Newman to his Southern home town. Some of Williams' more depraved touches are toned down, but the milieu is unmistakable and the movie is intense. The Night of the Iguana gives Richard Burton perhaps his finest hour onscreen: as Williams' dissolute defrocked priest, playing tour guide in Puerto Vallarta to tour groups of nattering biddies. The movie has director John Huston's sympathy for life's losers, as well as a trio of women built to torment Burton's reverend: Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, and Sue Lyon. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, based on Williams's novel, is not a great movie, but gives Vivien Leigh a good workout as a wounded actress dallying with Italian gigolo Warren Beatty.
Tennessee Williams' South is a 1973 documentary featuring some marvelous observations from Williams, as he holds court for filmmaker Harry Rasky. It also has long scenes from his plays, enacted by good folks such as Maureen Stapleton, Colleen Dewhurst, and Burl Ives. Especially valuable is a Streetcar sequence with Jessica Tandy re-creating her original role as Blanche. Williams himself reads the narration from The Glass Menagerie, a privileged moment. This is not an exhaustive Williams set (Joseph Mankiewicz's Suddenly, Last Summer and Sidney Lumet's The Fugitive Kind are among the best Williams films), but it maps out the steamy, tortured landscape awfully well. --Robert Horton
Product Description
Special Features:
- A Streetcar Named Desire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
- Commentary by Karl Malden and film historians Rudy Behlmer and Jeff Young
- Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery
- Feature-length documentary: Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
- Movie and audio outtakes
- Marlon Brando screen test
- Five new documentaries: A Streetcar on Broadway, A Streetcar in Hollywood, Censorship and Desire, North and the Music of the South, and An Actor Named Brando
- Black and white, 1.33 aspect ratio
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Deluxe Edition)
- Commentary by biographer Donald Spoto, author of "The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams"
- New featurette Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Playing Cat and Mouse
- Theatrical trailer
- Color, 1.85 anamorphic widescreen
- Sweet Bird of Youth
- New featurette Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
- Vintage Geraldine Page and Rip Torn screen test
- Color, 2.35 anamorphic widescreen
- The Night of the Iguana
- New featurette The Night of the Iguana: Houston's Gamble
- Vintage featurette On the Trail of the Iguana
- Theatrical trailers
- Black and white, 1.85 anamorphic widescreen
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- New featurette The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone: Looking for Love in All the Dark Corners
- Baby Doll
- New featurette
- Trailer gallery
- Black and white, 1.33
- Bonus disc: Tennessee Williams' South
Product Name | Tennessee Williams Film Collection On DVD |
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This item is returnable | No |