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This Property Is Condemned

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This Property Is Condemned (1966)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:9

Rotten:5

Average Rating:5.5/10

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Sydney Pollack directs this steamy melodrama co-scripted by Francis Ford Coppola from a play by Southern Gothic maestro Tennessee Williams. Robert Redford stars as Owen Legate, a handsome railroad... Sydney Pollack directs this steamy melodrama co-scripted by Francis Ford Coppola from a play by Southern Gothic maestro Tennessee Williams. Robert Redford stars as Owen Legate, a handsome railroad official who comes to Depression-era Dodson, Mississippi, to shut down the local rail yard and lay off its already struggling employees. When Legate begins a passionate affair with town flirt Alva Starr (Natalie Wood)--a small town girl with big dreams of escaping her dead-end surroundings--the romance angers Alva's domineering mother (Kate Reid) and ignites the town's economic resentments, provoking an act of revenge against the lovers. [More]

Starring: Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson

Starring: Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson, Dabney Coleman, Robert Blake, Mary Badham, Alan Baxter, Jon Provost

Director: Sydney Pollack

Director: Sydney Pollack
Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Coe, Edith Sommer
Story: Tennessee Williams
Producer: John Houseman
Composer: Kenyon Hopkins

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Considering the wealth of talent that participated in this Tennessee Williams adaptation, the results are disappointing in the extreme.

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02/09/06
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Coppola had a hand in the script, but this is an overcooked melodrama that's easy on the eye and not too taxing on the brain.

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05/24/03
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The script is riddled with obvious problems, but the acting is top-notch.

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12/11/07
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Derived from a Tennessee Williams one-acter, the production is adult without being sensational, touching without being maudlin.

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12/11/07
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11/05/05
Frank Swietek
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07/01/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Under Sydney Pollack's direction, they are all acting seamy sterotypes.

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05/09/05
Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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04/28/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Pretty controversial in its time; see it for Redford and Wood.

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11/01/04
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

No review available.

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08/25/04
Thomas Delapa
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Boulder Weekly

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03/26/04
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

For megafans of its leads only.

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11/23/03
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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08/15/03
Michael Szymanski
Michael Szymanski
Zap2it.com

Sydney Pollack's second film (1966) has Natalie Wood and Robert Redford entangled in a steamy Tennessee Williams plotline, well photographed by James Wong Howe.

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01/01/00
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
 
 
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