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...Streetcar Named Desire (Charles K. Feldman; Warner) is an impressive adaptation of Tennessee Williams' prize-winning 1947 Broadway hit about a fate-battered Southern belle in the last agonies of degradation. Though the movie has its flaws, it can claim a merit rare in Hollywood films: it is a grownup, gloves-off drama of real human beings...
...high points, Streetcar is observant, moving and exciting. Unhappily, despite Director Kazan's efforts to get movement inside the cramped settings, the movie too often seems stagebound and slow. It also has stretches of talk that go better in the theater than on the screen...
...somewhat watered-down characterization, and most of the movie's talkiest passages. The brilliantly lifelike playing of Actor Maiden and Actress Hunter is even better than it was on the stage. As the hulking, animalistic Kowalski, Marlon Brando fills his scenes with a virile power that gives Streetcar its highest voltage...
...Streetcar Named Desire is the latest picture to suggest that Hollywood Censor Joseph Breen has been stretching the Production Code to let more of the facts of life reach the screen. The reason, according to Hollywood observers: to help producers strengthen their movies for the competition with TV. Other recent examples: A Place in the Sun, in which a character tries to get an abortion; People Will Talk, whose broad-minded hero marries a girl pregnant, out of wedlock, by another man; The Prowler, which turns on a wedding-night discovery that the bride is an expectant mother...
...despite all the drawbacks of this show, "Streetcar" is still a fine play, and you won't waste an evening seeing...