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List Price: $68.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 10283
Released: May 2, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Streetcar Named Desire 2 Disc SE Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Deluxe Edition Sweet Bird of Youth Night of the Iguana Baby Doll Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Description of Tennessee Williams Film Collection (A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Two-Disc Special Edition / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Deluxe Edition / Sweet Bird of Youth / The Night of the Iguana / Baby Doll / The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone):
An earlier Elia Kazan film, the 1949 Pinky, now seems dated because its "scandalous" subject, miscegenation, has become a social nonissue. If anything, the reputation of this legendary 1956 romp about a child bride in the Deep South has shifted the other way; the ripe image of Carol Baker as a mentally challenged nymphet who sucks her thumb as she lures grown men into her crib (an actual crib!) would probably be hounded off the screen today. When it was originally released the film won a "condemned" rating from the Catholic Legion of Decency, but it isn't as explicit as that might suggest. Current audiences are likely to be shocked not by what's actually shown, but by the mere fact that the movie is a comedy, in effect a sex farce, adapted by Tennessee Williams from a couple of his raunchier one-act plays. Karl Malden is the divine cream puff's sad-sack husband, who has agreed to keep hands off until she turns 19; Eli Wallach is a high-stepping rival in the cotton business who harbors no such scruples. --David Chute
Tennessee Williams Film Collection (A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Two-Disc Special Edition / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 Deluxe Edition / Sweet Bird of Youth / The Night of the Iguana / Baby Doll / The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone) Reviews:
Outrageous and Entertaining 
2009-11-18 - I don't believe that this film is can be charactrized as a "Black Comedy", as some suggest, since the humor here is actually quite cruel--with an angry, weird and threatening dimension. "High Drama" is more like it, and there are clear implications for morality and ethical thought. It was regarded as quite daring and sexually tinged for its time.
Nonetheless, the "Negroes" in this film are portrayed in a dated and stereotyped way, while other ethnic slurs abound. I believe this material is of historical value rather than a deliberate attempt to denigrate others. In any case, anything by Tennessee Williams is guaranteed to be frightening, ourageous and entertaining. Recommended.
I was lucky 
2009-10-13 - I was lucky to see this at age 15, the day it opened at the Lindsey Theater in Lubbock, Texas. My date's name was Darlene and this was the only time I paid more attention to the movie than to her. The Baptists had the film taken down the next day, but my ideas about female beauty were set for many years to come. At the end we realize that Baby Doll...well I shouldn't say because it's a spoiler for some.
"BABY DOLL" IS A FAVORITE OF MINE
2009-09-21 - When this was first released, I was working in a theater that played it. It was controversial, to say the least. Really mild by today's standards. It was also condemned by the Catholic Church, which made it a "must see" film. Carroll Baker was known for her role in "GIANT." The late Karl Malden and co-star Eli Wallach are great. It is a campy film showing the deep south in early America. Very entertaining, even in black & white. I wish it was in widescreen, but it isn't. Elia Kazan (East of Eden) directed it.
tennessee williams,classic movies dvd box set
2009-09-14 - This box set is a very good collection of classic films at a very reasonable price. I highly recommed this set.
baby doll
2009-06-27 - this is a ok dvd of the movie baby doll i thought the moive was ok if you are into the old time movies then check this movie out hope this helps.
