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Depression-era Dodson, Mississippi, is particularly devastated with the arrival of Owen Legate, a railroad official with a pocketful of pink slips for the rail yard employees. When Legate appears on the doorstep of Alva Starr, the coquettish town flirt with plenty of big plans but nowhere to go, their ensuing affair enrages Alva's distant, uncaring mother and ignites a town's revenge. Sydney Pollack directs Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, and Charles Bronson in this sizzling Hollywood classic, adapted by Francis Ford Coppola from the classic play by Tennessee Williams. Unbridled passion and fiery emotion pours out of the screen in this remarkable Pollack feature, also featuring a jazzy score from Kenyon Hopkins. Special Features 1080p high-definition presentation NEW Audio commentary by filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat Sydney Pollack on American Cinema - a retrospective career interview with director Sydney Pollack Natalie Wood: A Tribute by Peter Bogdanovich - featurette Interview on Natalie Wood with author Gavin Lambert Original Theatrical Trailer
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This Property Is Condemned (1966)
110 min
Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr.