This Property Is Condemned
Directed by Sidney Pollock
Written by Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Coe, and Edith Summer suggested by a one-act play by Tennessee Williams
1966/USA
Paramount Pictures/Seven Arts Productions
First viewing/Amazon Instant One of the last of the Tennessee-Williams Southern-fried read more
Hawkeye: I’m outraged! It’s a disgrace. I’ve never seen a cleaner movie in my life.
B.J.: There was more filth and dirt in this morning’s breakfast.
Father Mulcahy: Well, one of the actors did say “virgin.”
Hawkeye: That’s because everyone was. –M*A*S* read more
The Starr family – Hazel (Kate Reid) and her daughters Willie (Mary Badham) and Alva (Natalie Wood) – operate the Starr Boarding House in the small town of Dodson, Mississippi. The boarding house caters to railroad men, including the wealthy Mr. Johnson (John Harding), an older man with read more
Inspired by a short story by Tennessee Williams, This Property is Condemned (1966) sports an amazing cast starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, and Mary Badham. This film–only the second ever to be directed by the soon-to-be legendary director/actor Sydney Pollack–tells the story of a s read more
The first movie review of 2014 is this sultry Tennessee Williams tale of freedom and sexuality. It’s every Williams movie rolled into one. Despite a third act slump the movie never recovers from, This Property Is Condemned has the best performances from Natalie Wood and Robert Redford I̵ read more
In This Property is Condemned, a humidity dripping adaptation of the one-act play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, a railroad official blows into the tiny town of Dodson and finds himself falling in love with the town flirt Alva. When Alva, desperate to escape the constraints of life in her read more
