Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
- loss of sense of reality
- rape
- sibling relationship
- southern usa
- brother-in-law
- violent husband
- new orleans
- louisiana
- family relationships
- black and white
- light bulb
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Vivien Leigh
Blanche DuBois
Marlon Brando
Stanley Kowalski
Kim Hunter
Stella Kowalski
Karl Malden
Harold Mitchell
- Rudy Bond — Steve
- Nick Dennis — Pablo Gonzales
- Peg Hillias — Eunice
- Wright King — A Collector
- Richard Garrick — A Doctor
- Ann Dere — The Matron
- Edna Thomas — The Mexican Woman
- Mickey Kuhn — A Sailor
- Mel Archer — Foreman (uncredited)
- Walter Bacon — Club Patron (uncredited)
- Dahn Ben Amotz — Minor Role (uncredited)
- Directed
- Elia Kazan
- Written
- Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,491 ratings
- Studio
- Charles K. Feldman Group, Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
