Considering the wealth of talent that participated in this Tennessee Williams adaptation, the results are disappointing in the extreme.
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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Reviews for This Property Is Condemned
Under Sydney Pollack's direction, they are all acting seamy sterotypes.
The script is riddled with obvious problems, but the acting is top-notch.
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.
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.
Derived from a Tennessee Williams one-acter, the production is adult without being sensational, touching without being maudlin.
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