Double Feature

A Streetcar Named Desire

Elia Kazan masterfully directs Tennessee Williams’ masterpiece starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter. 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. Nominated for an unprecedented 12 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and winner of four, its contributions to film continue to be celebrated, and it holds a place on the AFI’s list of top 100 Films. (Warner Bros)

“Perhaps the most thrilling display of ensemble acting in all of American film.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

The Fugitive Kind

Oscar winners Marlon Brando (On the Waterfront), Anna Magnani (The Rose Tattoo), Joanne Woodward (The Three Faces of Eve) and Maureen Stapleton (Reds) lead the stellar cast of this Southern gothic “sizzler” (Los Angeles Times) based on the Tennessee Williams play Orpheus Descending. Thanks to “brilliant” (The Film Daily) performances, The Fugitive Kind “sets one’s senses to throbbing” (The New York Times). Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier (Brando) is a handsome drifter with a guitar… and a past. Taking a job as a store clerk in Two Rivers, Mississippi, his strong and silent demeanor attracts not only the local party girl (Woodward), but also the shopkeeper’s exotic wife (Magnani). Soon, this explosive love triangle will ignite a powder keg of fury that could rock this small town to its very core. (MGM)