Tennessee Williams Film Collection 04.11.06 Streetcar SE, Night of the Iguana more
11-29-05, 04:52 PM
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Tennessee Williams Film Collection 04.11.06 Streetcar SE, Night of the Iguana more
Warner box set goodness
By way of The HTF
CD Universe has the following titles listed for March 28, 2006 from Warner Brothers.
Tennessee Williams Film Collection
A Streetcar Named Desire - Special Edition (1951)
Baby Doll (1956)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Special Edition (1958)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
The list price for the boxset is $79.98
A Streetcar Named Desire is $26.99 and all others are $19.97 (which means Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is likely only 1 disc edition).
By way of The HTF
CD Universe has the following titles listed for March 28, 2006 from Warner Brothers.
Tennessee Williams Film Collection
A Streetcar Named Desire - Special Edition (1951)
Baby Doll (1956)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Special Edition (1958)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
The list price for the boxset is $79.98
A Streetcar Named Desire is $26.99 and all others are $19.97 (which means Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is likely only 1 disc edition).
11-29-05, 04:58 PM
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Sounds like another fantastic set from Warner... "Streetcar" has been due for a special edition for quite some time, and the others (that I've seen) are all great movies.
11-30-05, 07:42 AM
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This is terrific news - maybe those so-called "lesser" titles will find new fans. And hopefully the extras on Baby Doll will include something about the efforts to censor and ban the move.
11-30-05, 09:48 AM
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This is terrific news - maybe those so-called "lesser" titles will find new fans. And hopefully the extras on Baby Doll will include something about the efforts to censor and ban the move.
12-11-05, 08:28 PM
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One of America's greatest playwrights, Tennessee Williams, will be honored with a DVD box set arriving in stores April 11.
Warner Home Video's Tennessee Williams Film Collection ($80) includes two-disc special editions of the two most celebrated film adaptations of Williams' plays —Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire— as well as four other films that have never before been available on DVD: Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Baby Doll and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. Also included is the CBC documentary Tennessee Williams' South.
Warner's George Feltenstein says the films are remarkably faithful to Williams' original plays, given the era in which they were produced. "The only minor thing that inhibits them — and which is painful for us purists — is that certain censorship issues that existed when some of the earlier films were made affected the fidelity of the original plays," Feltenstein says.
"In the end of A Streetcar Named Desire, Stella goes back to Stanley despite the fact that he destroyed her sister, because her lust is just too strong. But in the movie, she says no, not ever. And of course the relationship between Skip and Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is very skirted around because of the censors at the time."
Extras in the collection include new "making of" documentaries for each film, rare screen tests with stars Marlon Brando, Rip Torn and Geraldine Page, and a 1947 radio broadcast with Brando.
One of America's greatest playwrights, Tennessee Williams, will be honored with a DVD box set arriving in stores April 11.
Warner Home Video's Tennessee Williams Film Collection ($80) includes two-disc special editions of the two most celebrated film adaptations of Williams' plays —Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire— as well as four other films that have never before been available on DVD: Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Baby Doll and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. Also included is the CBC documentary Tennessee Williams' South.
Warner's George Feltenstein says the films are remarkably faithful to Williams' original plays, given the era in which they were produced. "The only minor thing that inhibits them — and which is painful for us purists — is that certain censorship issues that existed when some of the earlier films were made affected the fidelity of the original plays," Feltenstein says.
"In the end of A Streetcar Named Desire, Stella goes back to Stanley despite the fact that he destroyed her sister, because her lust is just too strong. But in the movie, she says no, not ever. And of course the relationship between Skip and Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is very skirted around because of the censors at the time."
Extras in the collection include new "making of" documentaries for each film, rare screen tests with stars Marlon Brando, Rip Torn and Geraldine Page, and a 1947 radio broadcast with Brando.
12-11-05, 09:23 PM
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You know, I've never seen Night of the Iguana, nor do I have any clue what it's about, but I think I may pick it up. The reason being is that I've gone down to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico every winter for the past 8 years and I always end up at the place where they filmed it.
It'd be pretty cool to see how much things have changed since then...
It'd be pretty cool to see how much things have changed since then...
12-12-05, 08:45 PM
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Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Tennessee Williams Film Collection for 11th April 2006. This eight-disc DVD set contains the acclaimed film adaptations of one of America’s greatest playwrights. The collection, priced at $79.92 SRP, features the long-awaited DVD debuts of Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Baby Doll and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone along with a newly remastered two-disc Special Edition of A Streetcar Named Desire and single disc Deluxe Edition of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Also included is a bonus disc, the rarely seen feature-length documentary, Tennessee Williams’ South. A Streetcar Named Desire is available for $26.99 SRP. All other individual titles are available for $19.97 SRP each.
Bonus materials in this collection include new making-of documentaries for each film, plus expert commentaries, never before seen outtakes, rare screen tests with Brando, Rip Torn and Geraldine Page, a radio broadcast with Brando from 1947 and vintage featurettes. Exclusive to the collection is a special bonus disc, Tennessee Williams’ South, a feature-length vintage documentary that includes remarkable interviews with Williams in and around New Orleans, plus great scenes from Williams’ plays especially filmed for this documentary, including rare footage of Jessica Tandy as Blanche (the role she created in A Streetcar Named Desire) and Maureen Stapleton as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie.
A Streetcar Named Desire: 2-Disc Special Edition is a celebration of what is, perhaps, Williams’ greatest masterpiece. This edition features three minutes of footage that was deleted from the final release version (and thought lost until its rediscovery in the early 1990s) that underscores, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski’s (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. The Legion of Decency required these scenes be cut in order for the film to be released.
A Streetcar Named Desire depicts a culture clash between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh), a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), a rising member of the industrial, inner-city immigrant class. Blanche is a Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her nymphomania and alcoholism. Arriving at the house of her sister Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter), Stella fears Blanche’s arrival will upset the balance of her relationship with her husband Stanley, a primal, rough-hewn, brutish and sensual force of nature. He dominates Stella in every way, and she tolerates his offensive crudeness and lack of gentility largely because of her sexual need for him. Stanley’s friend and Blanche’s would-be suitor Mitch (Karl Malden) is similarly trampled along Blanche and Stanley’s collision course. Their final, inevitable confrontation results in Blanche’s mental annihilation.
The film won Academy Awards? for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Karl Malden), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Vivien Leigh) , Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Kim Hunter), and Best Art Direction -- Set Decoration, Black-and-White. It was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marlon Brando), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Best Director, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Writing, Screenplay. In 1999 the film was selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Special Features Disc One:
Commentary by Karl Malden and film historian Rudy Behlmer
Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
Special Features Disc Two:
Movie and audio outtakes
Marlon Brando screen test
Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey documentary
5 new insightful documentaries:
A Streetcar on Broadway
A Streetcar in Hollywood
Desire and Censorship
North and the South
An Actor Named Brando
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Remastered Deluxe Edition - The raw emotions and crackling dialogue of Tennessee Williams’ 1955 Pulitzer Prize play rumble like a thunderstorm in this film version whose fiery performances and grown-up themes made it one of 1958’s top box-office hits.
Paul Newman earned his first Oscar? nomination as troubled ex-sports hero Brick. In a performance that marked a transition to richer adult roles, Elizabeth Taylor snagged her second. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture. Also starring Burl Ives (repeating his Broadway triumph as mendacity-loathing Big Daddy), Judith Anderson and Jack Carson, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof sizzles.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the story of a Southern family in crisis, focusing on the turbulent relationship between Maggie the Cat (Elizabeth Taylor) and Brick (Paul Newman), and their interaction with Brick’s family over the course of a weekend gathering at the family estate. Brick, an aging football hero, has neglected his wife and further infuriates her by ignoring his brother’s attempts to gain control of the family fortune. Although Big Daddy (Burl Ives) has cancer and will not celebrate another birthday, his doctors and his family have conspired to keep this information from him and his wife. His relatives are in attendance and attempt to present themselves in the best possible light, hoping to receive the definitive share of Big Daddy’s enormous wealth.
Oscar nominations were for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Newman); Best Actress (Taylor), Best Director (Richard Brooks) and Best Cinematography.
Special Features:
Commentary by biographer Donald Spoto, author of The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
New featurette Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Somebody Up There Likes Him
Theatrical trailer
Languages: English & Français
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
Sweet Bird of Youth - Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Madeleine Sherwood and Ed Begley recreated their stage roles in this bravura film version which featured Shirley Knight. Begley won Best Supporting Oscar and Page and Knight were nominated. Sex, money, hypocrisy, financial and emotional blackmail are familiar elements in Williams’ literary realm and combine powerfully in Sweet Bird of Youth as Chance (Newman) battles his private demons in a desperate bid to redeem his wasted life and recapture his lost sweet bird of youth.
Handsome Chance Wayne (Newman) never found the Hollywood stardom he craved, but he’s always been a star with the ladies. Now, back in his sleepy, sweaty Gulf Coast hometown, he’s involved with two of them: a washed-up, drug-and-vodka-addled movie queen. And the girl he left behind…and in trouble.
Special Features:
New featurette Sweet Bird of Youth: Broken Dreams and Damaged People
Never-before-seen Geraldine Page and Rip Torn screen test
Theatrical trailer
Languages: English & Français
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
Night of the Iguana - With an outstanding cast headed by Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr, direction by legendary John Huston and a steamy screenplay, Night of the Iguana pulses with conflicting passions and a surprising edge of knowing humor. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for three more, the film explores the dark night of one man’s soul – and illuminates the difference between dreams and the bittersweet surrender to reality.
In a remote Mexican seacoast town, a defrocked Episcopal priest (Richard Burton), ruined by alcoholism and insanity, struggles to pull his shattered life together. And the three women in his life – an earthy hotel owner (Ava Gardner), an ethereal artist (Deborah Kerr) and a hot-eyed, willful teenager (Sue Lyons) – can help save him. Or destroy him.
Shot just south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the tension-filled shoot put that small city on the map. Due in no small part to the presence of non-cast member Elizabeth Taylor, the shooting of the film during 1963 attracted large numbers of paparazzi, made international headlines, and in turn made Puerto Vallarta world-famous.
Special Features:
Commentary by John Huston
New featurette The Night of the Iguana: Dangerous Creatures
Vintage featurette On the Trail of the Iguana
1964 premiere highlights
Theatrical trailers
Languages: English & Français
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
Baby Doll - With Baby Doll, as with A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations – incorporating themes of lust, sexual repression, seduction, and the corruption of the human soul.
Time magazine called the film “just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited.” The film caused a sensation in 1956, also earning condemnation by the then-powerful Legion of Decency and causing Cardinal Spellman to denounce Doll from his pulpit.
Baby Doll earned laurels too: four Academy Award nominations, Golden Globe Awards for Baker and Kazan and a British Academy Award? for Wallace. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Martin’s Movie Guide proclaims, “still sizzles.”
The film centers around cotton-mill owner Archie (Karl Malden) who’s going through tough times but at least has his luscious, child-bride (Carroll Baker) with whom he’ll be allowed to consummate when she’s 20. Rival Silva Vaccaro (Eli Wallach) thinks Archie may have set fire to his mill and takes an erotic form of Sicilian vengeance.
Special Features:
New featurette Baby Doll: See No Evil
Baby Doll trailer gallery
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Widow Karen Stone is wealthy and beautiful. Her acting successes are a memory. She lives alone in a luxury apartment overlooking the Roman steps where romantic liaisons take place. And waits. She soon starts an affair with the young and expensive Paolo.
Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty are lady and lover in this tender adaptation of a Tennessee Williams novella directed by Broadway veteran Jose Quintero. Leigh won her second Oscar for Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire; their reteaming creates a similar spell – at once romantic, sinister and nearly explosive. Adding spice to the combustion of the two leads are Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee Lotte Lenya as a Contessa who “arranges” romances in which she has a financial stake and Coral Browne as Karen’s savvy best friend.
Special Features:
New featurette The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone: I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow
Theatrical trailer
Languages: English & Français
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
Bonus materials in this collection include new making-of documentaries for each film, plus expert commentaries, never before seen outtakes, rare screen tests with Brando, Rip Torn and Geraldine Page, a radio broadcast with Brando from 1947 and vintage featurettes. Exclusive to the collection is a special bonus disc, Tennessee Williams’ South, a feature-length vintage documentary that includes remarkable interviews with Williams in and around New Orleans, plus great scenes from Williams’ plays especially filmed for this documentary, including rare footage of Jessica Tandy as Blanche (the role she created in A Streetcar Named Desire) and Maureen Stapleton as Amanda in The Glass Menagerie.
A Streetcar Named Desire: 2-Disc Special Edition is a celebration of what is, perhaps, Williams’ greatest masterpiece. This edition features three minutes of footage that was deleted from the final release version (and thought lost until its rediscovery in the early 1990s) that underscores, among other things, the sexual tension between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), and Stella Kowalski’s (Kim Hunter) passion for husband Stanley. The Legion of Decency required these scenes be cut in order for the film to be released.
A Streetcar Named Desire depicts a culture clash between Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh), a pretentious, fading relic of the Old South, and Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), a rising member of the industrial, inner-city immigrant class. Blanche is a Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask her nymphomania and alcoholism. Arriving at the house of her sister Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter), Stella fears Blanche’s arrival will upset the balance of her relationship with her husband Stanley, a primal, rough-hewn, brutish and sensual force of nature. He dominates Stella in every way, and she tolerates his offensive crudeness and lack of gentility largely because of her sexual need for him. Stanley’s friend and Blanche’s would-be suitor Mitch (Karl Malden) is similarly trampled along Blanche and Stanley’s collision course. Their final, inevitable confrontation results in Blanche’s mental annihilation.
The film won Academy Awards? for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Karl Malden), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Vivien Leigh) , Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Kim Hunter), and Best Art Direction -- Set Decoration, Black-and-White. It was also nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marlon Brando), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Best Director, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Writing, Screenplay. In 1999 the film was selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Special Features Disc One:
Commentary by Karl Malden and film historian Rudy Behlmer
Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
Special Features Disc Two:
Movie and audio outtakes
Marlon Brando screen test
Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey documentary
5 new insightful documentaries:
A Streetcar on Broadway
A Streetcar in Hollywood
Desire and Censorship
North and the South
An Actor Named Brando
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Remastered Deluxe Edition - The raw emotions and crackling dialogue of Tennessee Williams’ 1955 Pulitzer Prize play rumble like a thunderstorm in this film version whose fiery performances and grown-up themes made it one of 1958’s top box-office hits.
Paul Newman earned his first Oscar? nomination as troubled ex-sports hero Brick. In a performance that marked a transition to richer adult roles, Elizabeth Taylor snagged her second. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture. Also starring Burl Ives (repeating his Broadway triumph as mendacity-loathing Big Daddy), Judith Anderson and Jack Carson, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof sizzles.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the story of a Southern family in crisis, focusing on the turbulent relationship between Maggie the Cat (Elizabeth Taylor) and Brick (Paul Newman), and their interaction with Brick’s family over the course of a weekend gathering at the family estate. Brick, an aging football hero, has neglected his wife and further infuriates her by ignoring his brother’s attempts to gain control of the family fortune. Although Big Daddy (Burl Ives) has cancer and will not celebrate another birthday, his doctors and his family have conspired to keep this information from him and his wife. His relatives are in attendance and attempt to present themselves in the best possible light, hoping to receive the definitive share of Big Daddy’s enormous wealth.
Oscar nominations were for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Newman); Best Actress (Taylor), Best Director (Richard Brooks) and Best Cinematography.
Special Features:
Commentary by biographer Donald Spoto, author of The Kindness of Strangers: The Life of Tennessee Williams
New featurette Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Somebody Up There Likes Him
Theatrical trailer
Languages: English & Français
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
Sweet Bird of Youth - Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, Madeleine Sherwood and Ed Begley recreated their stage roles in this bravura film version which featured Shirley Knight. Begley won Best Supporting Oscar and Page and Knight were nominated. Sex, money, hypocrisy, financial and emotional blackmail are familiar elements in Williams’ literary realm and combine powerfully in Sweet Bird of Youth as Chance (Newman) battles his private demons in a desperate bid to redeem his wasted life and recapture his lost sweet bird of youth.
Handsome Chance Wayne (Newman) never found the Hollywood stardom he craved, but he’s always been a star with the ladies. Now, back in his sleepy, sweaty Gulf Coast hometown, he’s involved with two of them: a washed-up, drug-and-vodka-addled movie queen. And the girl he left behind…and in trouble.
Special Features:
New featurette Sweet Bird of Youth: Broken Dreams and Damaged People
Never-before-seen Geraldine Page and Rip Torn screen test
Theatrical trailer
Languages: English & Français
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
Night of the Iguana - With an outstanding cast headed by Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Deborah Kerr, direction by legendary John Huston and a steamy screenplay, Night of the Iguana pulses with conflicting passions and a surprising edge of knowing humor. Winner of one Academy Award and nominated for three more, the film explores the dark night of one man’s soul – and illuminates the difference between dreams and the bittersweet surrender to reality.
In a remote Mexican seacoast town, a defrocked Episcopal priest (Richard Burton), ruined by alcoholism and insanity, struggles to pull his shattered life together. And the three women in his life – an earthy hotel owner (Ava Gardner), an ethereal artist (Deborah Kerr) and a hot-eyed, willful teenager (Sue Lyons) – can help save him. Or destroy him.
Shot just south of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the tension-filled shoot put that small city on the map. Due in no small part to the presence of non-cast member Elizabeth Taylor, the shooting of the film during 1963 attracted large numbers of paparazzi, made international headlines, and in turn made Puerto Vallarta world-famous.
Special Features:
Commentary by John Huston
New featurette The Night of the Iguana: Dangerous Creatures
Vintage featurette On the Trail of the Iguana
1964 premiere highlights
Theatrical trailers
Languages: English & Français
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
Baby Doll - With Baby Doll, as with A Streetcar Named Desire, director Elia Kazan and writer Tennessee Williams broke new ground in depicting sexual situations – incorporating themes of lust, sexual repression, seduction, and the corruption of the human soul.
Time magazine called the film “just possibly the dirtiest American-made motion picture that has ever been legally exhibited.” The film caused a sensation in 1956, also earning condemnation by the then-powerful Legion of Decency and causing Cardinal Spellman to denounce Doll from his pulpit.
Baby Doll earned laurels too: four Academy Award nominations, Golden Globe Awards for Baker and Kazan and a British Academy Award? for Wallace. Watch this funny, steamy classic that, as Leonard Martin’s Movie Guide proclaims, “still sizzles.”
The film centers around cotton-mill owner Archie (Karl Malden) who’s going through tough times but at least has his luscious, child-bride (Carroll Baker) with whom he’ll be allowed to consummate when she’s 20. Rival Silva Vaccaro (Eli Wallach) thinks Archie may have set fire to his mill and takes an erotic form of Sicilian vengeance.
Special Features:
New featurette Baby Doll: See No Evil
Baby Doll trailer gallery
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Widow Karen Stone is wealthy and beautiful. Her acting successes are a memory. She lives alone in a luxury apartment overlooking the Roman steps where romantic liaisons take place. And waits. She soon starts an affair with the young and expensive Paolo.
Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty are lady and lover in this tender adaptation of a Tennessee Williams novella directed by Broadway veteran Jose Quintero. Leigh won her second Oscar for Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire; their reteaming creates a similar spell – at once romantic, sinister and nearly explosive. Adding spice to the combustion of the two leads are Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee Lotte Lenya as a Contessa who “arranges” romances in which she has a financial stake and Coral Browne as Karen’s savvy best friend.
Special Features:
New featurette The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone: I Can’t Imagine Tomorrow
Theatrical trailer
Languages: English & Français
Subtitles: English, Français & Español (feature film only)
12-26-05, 10:50 PM
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From a WB email received today:
Due to Warner Home Video scheduling issues, the release date for Tennessee Williams Collection has been changed to May 2, 2006.
From a WB email received today:
Due to Warner Home Video scheduling issues, the release date for Tennessee Williams Collection has been changed to May 2, 2006.
01-20-06, 01:36 AM
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Title: Tennessee Williams Film Collection
Starring: N/A (Various)
Released: 2nd May 2006
SRP: $79.92
Further Details:
Warner Home Video has made available the artwork for the Tennessee Williams Film Collection which includes Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Baby Doll, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, and a two-disc special edition of A Streetcar Named Desire. The seven-disc collection will be available to own from the 2nd May, priced at around $79.92. As well as a newly remastered transfer, Streetcar Named Desire will include a commentary by Karl Malden and film historian Rudy Behlmer, an Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery, movie and audio outtakes, a Marlon Brando screen test, Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey documentary, and five new documentaries (A Streetcar on Broadway, A Streetcar in Hollywood, Desire and Censorship, North and the South and An Actor Named Brando). Cat on a Hat Tin Roof will include commentary by biographer Donald Spoto, a new featurette and the theatrical trailer. Night of the Iguana will include commentary by John Huston, a new featurette entitled The Night of the Iguana: Dangerous Creatures, a vintage featurette, 1964 premiere highlights, and trailers. The other titles will also include a making of featurette and the trailer. You may also be pleased to hear that the discs will be available individually at around $19.97 a pop. We've attached the official package artwork below:
Title: Tennessee Williams Film Collection
Starring: N/A (Various)
Released: 2nd May 2006
SRP: $79.92
Further Details:
Warner Home Video has made available the artwork for the Tennessee Williams Film Collection which includes Sweet Bird of Youth, Night of the Iguana, Baby Doll, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, and a two-disc special edition of A Streetcar Named Desire. The seven-disc collection will be available to own from the 2nd May, priced at around $79.92. As well as a newly remastered transfer, Streetcar Named Desire will include a commentary by Karl Malden and film historian Rudy Behlmer, an Elia Kazan movie trailer gallery, movie and audio outtakes, a Marlon Brando screen test, Elia Kazan: A Director’s Journey documentary, and five new documentaries (A Streetcar on Broadway, A Streetcar in Hollywood, Desire and Censorship, North and the South and An Actor Named Brando). Cat on a Hat Tin Roof will include commentary by biographer Donald Spoto, a new featurette and the theatrical trailer. Night of the Iguana will include commentary by John Huston, a new featurette entitled The Night of the Iguana: Dangerous Creatures, a vintage featurette, 1964 premiere highlights, and trailers. The other titles will also include a making of featurette and the trailer. You may also be pleased to hear that the discs will be available individually at around $19.97 a pop. We've attached the official package artwork below:
05-02-06, 10:13 AM
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I received the set from Amazon this morning and was pleased to see a seventh DVD included, 'Tennessee William's South', a film by Harry Rasky.
It's a 1973 80 minute long documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
It's a 1973 80 minute long documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Interesting if you look at the spine of the box, Cat On A Hot Thin Roof says 2 disc special edition at the top when it's really only "deluxe edition". Wonder if it was originally supposed to be 2.
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I just picked up Streetcar yesterday without realizing it was part of a larger boxset. Fortunately I've not opened it yet. I think I'll return it and get the boxset instead now. It's just a little more than the price of two of the movies and there's at least two I'd get there. So I'm glad I didn't open it. 
