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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
November 13, 2018  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

“STELLLLLL-AAAAA!” Marlon Brando changed acting immediately, and for generations, with this electrifyingly animalistic portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in this 1951 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. Elia Kazan directs, honing in on all the angst and misery, and Brando is matched, in fire and fury and in tortured silences, by Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois and Kim Hunter as Stanley’s passionate spouse, whose name, in this movie’s most indelible scene, he screams to the rooftops.

 
 
 
 
 
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