Tennessee Williams
2) Crazy Night
Author
Language
English
Description
From the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, a glimpse of college life on the eve of graduation.
It's the last day of the academic year, and the students of a small, mid-western university are preparing for a bacchanalian celebration called Crazy Night. Our chaperone for the evening is Phil, a freshman on the verge of flunking out, who roves the fraternities in search of beer, women, and the meaning of life. It's just after the Great...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Description
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drama of a strong willed woman who attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life of her reclusive daughter, and how the daughter finds a way of escape.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Two-disc special edition ; full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 122 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A neurotic, aging Southern belle goes to live with her sister in New Orleans, where she clashes with her sister's abusive, insensitive husband.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Edition
Original director's version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Two-disc special ed.; Standard format.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed by and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money. He sets about discovering everything else...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
[Full screen and Widescreen versions].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (475 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A streetcar named Desire: Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Julius Caesar: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic.
The teahouse of the August moon: Okinawa 1946- occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (435 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cat on a hot tin roof: A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Butterfield 8: A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominant man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust, so they battle their emotions and each other, leading to a powerful and explosive climax.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (435 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father of the bride: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
The sandpiper: A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.
Author
Language
English
Description
She was once a beautiful screen idol who fled Hollywood after a film premiere for fear that she had lost her allure. He was once a local golden boy who, through missed opportunities, found himself a cabana boy. This powerful production of the Tennessee Williams play incorporates the intense drama and steamy lust of two people determined to use each other to achieve their goals.