``The Tennessee Williams Film Collection'' Debuts April 11.

BURBANK, Calif. -- "The Tennessee Williams Film Collection" -- an eight-disc DVD set containing the acclaimed film adaptations of one of America's greatest playwrights -- debuts April 11 from Warner Home Video. The collection, priced at $79.92 SRP, features the long-awaited DVD debuts of "Sweet Bird of Youth," "Night of the Iguana," "Baby Doll" and "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" along with a newly remastered two-disc Special Edition of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and single disc Deluxe Edition of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Also included is a bonus disc, the rarely seen feature-length documentary, "Tennessee Williams' South." "A Streetcar Named Desire" is available for $26.99 SRP. All other individual titles are available for $19.97 SRP each.

Bonus materials include new making-of documentaries for each film, expert commentaries, never before seen outtakes, rare screen tests with Marlon Brando, Rip Torn and Geraldine Page, a radio broadcast with Brando from 1947 and vintage featurettes. "Tennessee Williams' South" is a revealing vintage documentary that includes interviews with Williams around New Orleans, and great scenes from his plays especially filmed for this documentary, including rare footage of Jessica Tandy as Blanche (the role she created in "A Streetcar Named Desire") and Maureen Stapleton as Amanda in "The Glass Menagerie."

Williams -- from whose pen came stunning unforgettable characters, powerful portraits of the human condition and an incredible vision of life in the South -- stands with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller as one of the three quintessentially eminent American playwrights. Thomas Lanier Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi, on March 26, 1911. He published his first short story at the age of sixteen and his first great Broadway success was "The Glass Menagerie" which won the New York Drama Critics' Circle award in 1945 as the best play of the season.

Williams often commented on the violence in his work, which to him seemed part of the human condition. Critics who attacked the "excesses" of Williams' work often were making thinly veiled assaults on his sexuality. Homosexuality was not discussed openly at that time but in Williams' plays the themes of desire and isolation show, among other things, the influence of having grown up gay in a homophobic world.