TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Romantic Dramas (East of Eden / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / A Streetcar Named Desire / Rebel Without a Cause)

Mom was looking for one of these films. She was tickled to receive this collection! The CDs work fine and the stories are classics.

If you're a classic movie lover, these are essentials.

Eleven dollars is not a bad price for this amazing classics. Now I don't buy movies on DVDs unless I HAVE to own them for my sake. So I recently bought this. Now I have a Streetcar Named Desire on Blu-ray and I know that the James Dean Ultimate collection and Blu-ray books are coming out but I just needed it now.I recommend this movie pack unless you want to wait for the release of the James Dean movies on Blu-ray which will be Nov 5. Or you could just buy both which is what I will do. This price is ridiculous and this movies are timeless so again I recommend.So what you get is this: You get a cardboard sleeve and the box with it's artwork in its plastic sleeve and four discs. Yes you get FOUR DICS!!! Not like it's described in the back of the box. You get a disc for every movie. The discs are the original released for each single movie. And you get them all stacked on top of each other in supported by this fairly deep disc holder.I think it's awesome so BUY IT!

2 by Tennessee Williams and 2 starring James Dean make this a very appealing fifties foursome. Best is Streetcar, but the others are all good too. Cat features outstanding performances by Liz & Paul. Both by Tenn have language that literally leaps from the screen. You will savor that. Rebel is probably Dean's best and it was certainly a zeitgeist film. Most of these films have a brief (10-12 minute) featurette which is very helpful in providing context. Lastly, this collection is an exceptional value. 1 or 2 masterpieces, and the others nearly so. My sole quibble: calling these 'Romantic' might be a little misleading. 'Fifties Dramas' would have been a better title.

My mother and I watched all four movies together, and shared a lot of tears and a lot of laughter! It was wonderful watching "true movie stars" that were, overall, protected by their agents from the public eye (who really cares what they ate for breakfast, etc.?). Each star, in every movie, deserved their idolization during their time in their limelights! My mother said, "Ah, when movie stars were movie stars!" We are both hoping for ONE DVD release that includes the following three of her favourites: "Butterfield 8", "The Taming of the Shrew", and "Cleopatra". If you cannot share these movies with one of your senior parents, I would still highly recommend this TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection.

Two of Williams famous plays.. "Street Car Named Desire" and "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof." Both adopted for the screen in the '50s. Tennessee Williams portrays rough, insensitive men in difficult times. The women are stressful, searching for something more.The films won several nominations. "Street Car" made the unknown Marlon Brando a world famous actor. "Cat" was a mega-winner for Elizabeth Taylor. You also get 2 James Dean films.

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF WILL NOT PLAY. Tried it three times. All of the others play but not that one. I had never seen it so really wanted it. Oh well.

Like loads of people I've fallen in love with James Dean, and getting just East of Eden (my favourite film) and Rebel Without A Cause in one set for so cheap would be great... but then you also have Streetcar, which is terrific, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which is quite good as well and certainly worth watching if you like the rest! A really great collection -- though I've not the faintest idea why it's called 'Romantic Dramas'. I'd call it the 'Moody Young Men' Collection myself. :P

I really enjoyed all the movies. For me they worked well in my blu-ray machine. Sometimes hard to read the titles on the disk as they were in very small print. There aren't stars today like Paul Newman, Marlon Brando and James Dean. An excellent collection.

I never managed to see these films at their original release time ( I am old enough! ) but watching them now I found them very enjoyable and revealing. They are all about dysfunctional relationships either in families or social situations. All the actors and actresses do a good job and are very convincing. I can see why these films were a revelation and complete contrast to the soapy drivel that mostly preceded them. They make you think about the human condition and how society treats disadvantaged people of one kind and another.

"Rebel Without A Cause" is not quite in the category of eternal significance of the other three movies in this selection, which says a great deal, given that it is a great movie in it's own right.

Rebel without a cause on disc doesn't work, only just tried to watch it, conned again

very much enjoyed these 4 films and arrived in great condition... no scratches no skips either... will enjoy on late nights with lots of popcorn....