Simply a masterful adap of Tennessee Williams' sultry, searing play and an affirmation of Marlon Brando's acting genius. The latter's mesmerising as Stanley Kowalski, a blue-collar New Orleans hunk knocking heads with his wife's pretentious sister, Blanche (Vivien Leigh, magnificent). The sexual tension crackles as Blanche's deceitful self-image is stripped down by Stanley's brutal misogyny - and everything ends in tears.
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