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A streetcar named Desire

by Kim Hunter, Charles K. Feldman, Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams

Man-woman relationshipsDramaLustFeature filmsVideo recordings for the hearing impaired

Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following WWII, this is a story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law.

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Book data: Open Library