TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Romantic Dramas (East of Eden / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / A Streetcar Named Desire / Rebel Without a Cause)
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Movies/TV › Feature Film Drama
UPC: 883929048960 / Publisher: WarnerBrothers, February 2009
Competition between brothers for their father's love leads to a tragic end; family tensions erupt on a southern plantation between a terminally ill man, his alcoholic son, and the son's frustrated wife; a disturbed woman moves in with her sister and brutish brother-in-law in New Orleans; new in town, a troubled teen tries to prove himself to his peers and find the love he does not get from his family.
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Rebel Without a Cause - Dean plays the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens and still reverberate today. East of Eden - A wayward Salinas Valley youth (Dean) vies for the affection of his hardened father (Massey) with his favored brother (Davalos). Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams Pulitzer Prize play thunders across the screen in a powerful film adaptation about frustrated Southern belle wife Maggie the Cat and her disillusioned ex-athlete husband. A Streetcar Named Desire: The Original Director's Version - Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize play about the clash between brutish Stanley Kowlaski (Marlon Brando) and his dreamy sister-in-law Blanche Dubois (Vivien Leigh).
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