This Property Is Condemned (1966)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Escritores:

Tennessee Williams (play)
Francis Ford Coppola (writer) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

7 octubre 1966 (Alemania Occidental)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

Alva wanted out in the worst way.

Plot:

A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income)...

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Railroad | Mississippi | Railroad Track | 1920s

Premios:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Alva Starr, the person, the train, the property

Reparto

Natalie Wood	...	Alva Starr
Robert Redford	...	Owen Legate
Charles Bronson	...	J.J. Nichols
Kate Reid	...	Hazel Starr
Mary Badham	...	Willie Starr
Alan Baxter	...	Knopke
Robert Blake	...	Sidney
Dabney Coleman	...	Salesman
John Harding	...	Johnson
Ray Hemphill	...	Jim
Brett Pearson	...	Charlie
Jon Provost	...	Tom
Robert Random	...	Tiny (as Bob Random)
Quintin Sondergaard	...	Hank
Mike Steen	...	Max

También conocida como:

Propiedad condenada (Spain) [es]

Duración:

110 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Sweden:11 | West Germany:16 (f) | UK:12 (2004) | UK:X (1966) | Finland:K-16 | USA:Unrated | Singapore:PG | Argentina:18

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

Natalie Wood had to perform a scene standing in a small stream of water. She was so afraid of dark water that costar Robert Blake had to dive under the water, hold his breath and steady her legs so she could perform the scene.

Errores:

Anacronismos: A wall calendar shows it to be August, 1931. Natalie Wood and Robert Redford go to a movie that didn't come out until October, 1932

Conexiones de Película:

References One Way Passage (1932)

Banda de Sonido:

Wish Me a Rainbow

Alva Starr, the person, the train, the property

A wonderful showcase of young talent who continued on to long careers.

Natalie Woods character is somewhat the hooker with the heart of gold, aching to escape her lonely town caught in the great depression, but her domineering mother will never allow it. Very sad, and the beautiful but discarded train called Alva Starr represents her well.

Alva (Wood) is conditioned to always present things as pretty. She describes to Owen (Redford) all the beauty of the train, the seats are covered with lilac talcum, at last Owen rebuts the train is not beautiful, its junked, what she sees as talcum is just dust.

There are beautiful shots of the locomotives, good character dialogue and literary elements.