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a streetcar named desire
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A Streetcar Named Desire

2hrs 2mins
Directed by
Elia Kazan
Featuring
Vivien Leigh,
Marlon Brando,
Kim Hunter
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Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden star in this film adaptation of the Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in New Orleans' French Quarter. 

Lonely and fragile Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Leigh), desperate to maintain her fraying sanity, suffers her brutish brother-in-law's (Brando) relentless, badgering attempts to make her face reality--which eventually lead her to madness.

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