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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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The script is riddled with obvious problems, but the acting is top-notch. Full Review |
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Derived from a Tennessee Williams one-acter, the production is adult without being sensational, touching without being maudlin. Full Review |
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Under Sydney Pollack's direction, they are all acting seamy sterotypes. Full Review |
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Pretty controversial in its time; see it for Redford and Wood.
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For megafans of its leads only. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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