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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
June 8, 2016  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

If Elia Kazan had never filmed this 1951 movie version of the Tennessee Williams Broadway play, and captured, like a bug in amber, Marlon Brando’s volatile and sensitive performance as Stanley, we might have never measured the true worth of Brando’s impact on generations of actors to follow. But thanks to this film, which also stars Vivien Leigh and Kim Hunter as Blanche and Stella, respectively, it’s astoundingly obvious.

 
 
 
 
 
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