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Madness of a different flavor permeated the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ hit play A Streetcar Named Desire, and with White Heat, audiences saw aspects of human behavior previously denied them by Hollywood studios. This seldom-seen shot from the Elia Kazan production depicts the pivotal scene in which Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) attacks Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh).