Tennessee Williams: Legendary Playwright.
Celebrating a playwright whose work remains highly regarded.
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- DirectorElia KazanStarsVivien LeighMarlon BrandoKim HunterDisturbed 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.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsElizabeth TaylorPaul NewmanBurl IvesBrick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
- DirectorIrving RapperStarsJane WymanKirk DouglasGertrude LawrenceMerchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.
- DirectorDaniel MannStarsAnna MagnaniBurt LancasterMarisa PavanA Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsKarl MaldenCarroll BakerEli WallachAn immature, naive teenage bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsMarlon BrandoJoanne WoodwardAnna MagnaniA guitar-playing drifter wanders into a small Mississippi town and inflames two troubled women.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsRichard BurtonAva GardnerDeborah KerrAn ostracized Episcopal clergyman leads a busload of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsElizabeth TaylorKatharine HepburnMontgomery CliftA surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsPaul NewmanGeraldine PageShirley KnightA drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.
- DirectorPeter GlenvilleStarsLaurence HarveyGeraldine PageRita MorenoA plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student who prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsAnthony FranciosaJane FondaJim HuttonA newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
- DirectorJosé QuinteroStarsVivien LeighWarren BeattyCoral BrowneAn aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsElizabeth TaylorRichard BurtonNoël CowardExplores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
- DirectorSydney PollackStarsNatalie WoodRobert RedfordCharles BronsonThe dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsJames CoburnLynn RedgraveRobert HooksAfter winning a game show contest, a newlywed couple travels to New Orleans where the husband seeks to reclaim his ancestral plantation mansion from his biracial stepbrother.
- DirectorJack LandauStarsTom AldredgeMichael BaseleonAlbert DekkerA collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love and death. The reference to "Camino Real" is allegorical, and represents the journey of life.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsAlan MixonWilliam RedfieldLois SmithProducer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with searching clarity. The joint presentation, entitled "Dragon Country," features the world premiere of "I Can't Imagine Tomorrow," starring Kim Stanley and William Redfield, and a much earlier work, "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen," starring Lois Smith and Alan Mixon. Together, the dramas delve into "a land of endured but unendurable pain, where each one is so absorbed, deafened, blinded by his own journey across it, he sees, he looks for, no one else crawling across it with him."
- DirectorTom GriesStarsCloris LeachmanRon HowardSissy SpacekA look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.
- DirectorsDouglas SirkHans SchönherrTilman TaubeStarsMichael BreiningAnnemarie DüringerRainer Werner FassbinderAbout an alcoholic, cockroach-fearing tenant who has failed to pay her rent and the argument that ensues between her, her landlady, and another resident of the building.
- DirectorsJoel KnoxBaris ÇakmakStarBaris ÇakmakFor all the beauty, struggle and pain he went through in the latter part of his life... with an imaginative perspective.
- DirectorHarry RaskyStarsFrancisco CastilloJohn ColicosColleen DewhurstSeveral relaxing chats with the author, in which he reads some of his texts, are interspersed with restagings of scenes from his plays performed by quality actors.
- DirectorRobert MooreStarsLaurence OlivierMaureen StapletonJack HedleyThe story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.
- DirectorJack HofsissStarsJessica LangeTommy Lee JonesRip TornAn alcoholic and femme fatale face troubles before a family reunion.
- DirectorAnthony HarveyStarsKatharine HepburnSam WaterstonJoanna MilesAmanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter withdraws into a dream world. When a "gentleman caller" appears, things move to crisis point.
- DirectorMichael ElliottStarsShirley BoothHal HolbrookBarbara LodenAmanda Wingfield dominates her children with faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past.