This Property Is Condemned is a 1966
American film starring
Natalie Wood,
Robert Redford,
Kate Reid,
Charles Bronson and
Mary Badham and directed by
Sydney Pollack. The screenplay was written by
Francis Ford Coppola,
Fred Coe and
Edith Sommer. The story was suggested by the 1946
one-act play of the same name by
Tennessee Williams. The film was released by
Paramount Pictures.
The
depression-era story takes place in the fictional
Mississippi town of Dodson. Owen Legate (Robert Redford), working for the railroad which provides much of the economic base for the town, comes to town on an unpopular errand. Natalie Wood plays Alva Starr, a pretty town flirt who finds herself stuck in this small town and very much attracted to the handsome stranger.