East of Eden (Motion picture.) Cat on a hot tin roof (Motion picture.) Rebel without a cause (Motion picture.) Streetcar named Desire (Motion picture.)
Notes:
Title from container. James Dean, Natalie Wood, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando.
Contents:
Rebel without a cause / [presented by] Warner Bros. Pictures ; screenplay by Stewart Stern ; produced by David Weisbart ; directed by Nicholas Ray (111 min.) -- East of Eden / an Elia Kazan Production ; screenplay by Paul Osborn ; directed by Elia Kazan ; based on the novel by John Steinbeck (118 min.) -- Cat on a hot tin roof / [presented by] MGM ; screenplay by Richard Brooks and James Poe ; directed by Richard Brooks ; produced by Lawrence Weingarten (108 min.) -- A streetcar named Desire: the original director's version / [presented by] Warner Bros. Pictures ; an Elia Kazan production ; produced by Charles K. Feldman ; screenplay by Tennessee Williams ; directed by Elia Kazan (122 min.).
Summary:
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's mental collapse through exposure to her brother-in-law's animal magnetism. Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police. East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother. Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.
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