Cat on a hot tin roof (Motion picture) Streetcar named Desire (Motion picture) Rebel without a cause (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from container. East of Eden: Julie Harris, James Dean ; Cat on a hot tin roof: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman ; A streetcar named Desire: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando ; Rebel without a cause: James Dean, Natalie Wood. "East of Eden" based on John Steinbeck's novel; "Cat on a hot tin roof" and "A streetcar named Desire" based on plays by Tennessee WIlliams.
Contents:
East of Eden (1955) / produced and directed by Elia Kazan ; screenplay by Paul Osborn -- Cat on a hot tin roof (1958) / produced by Lawrence Weingarten ; screenplay by Richard Brooks, James Poe ; directed by Richard Brooks -- A streetcar named Desire (1951, original director's version) / produced by Charles K. Feldman ; screenplay by Tennessee Williams ; directed by Elia Kazan -- Rebel without a cause (1955) / produced by David Weisbart ; screenplay by Stewart Stern ; directed by Nicholas Ray.
Summary:
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.
Series:
Turner classic movies greatest classic films collection, TCM romantic dramas
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