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Feb 12, 2017 - 3:21 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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Good to see that this film has been found. When the American Film Institute added 1960's PRIVATE PROPERTY to its catalog about 10 years ago, no print of the film could be located for viewing. Although the film was was co-produced by Daystar Productions, copyright lies solely with the other co-production company, Kana Productions, Inc. PRIVATE PROPERTY was released by an outfit called Citation Films, Inc., which released two other films around the same time. Neither of them have been located either. "Private Property" was the first film for producer Stanley Colbert and writer-director Leslie Stevens. The partners had previously written the stage play "The Marriage-Go-Round," which Stevens produced for Twentieth Century-Fox later in 1960.
According to several reviews, PRIVATE PROPERTY was produced for only $59,000 and was shot mainly at Stevens' home in Los Angeles. Before its release, the film was denied a Production Code seal and given a "C," or condemned, rating by the National Catholic Legion of Decency for “highly suggestive sequences, dialogue and music.” However, as noted in a 17 February 1960 Hollywood Reporter news item, the New York State Board of Censors passed the picture without edits. The film opened in New York City on 24 April 1960.
Press materials referred to Stevens as an "American New Wave" director, in reference to the French New Wave filmmakers who were earning acclaim at the time. A publicity line called the film “The most cussed and discussed film of our generation.” Many reviews stated that although PRIVATE PROPERTY's subject matter was prurient, the filmmaking was excellent. Although Stevens was hailed as a rising young talent, he directed only three more feature films--HERO'S ISLAND (1962), INCUBUS (1966), and THREE KINDS OF HEAT (1987).
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Feb 12, 2017 - 7:37 AM
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johnjohnson
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Long considered lost until it was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and rereleased in 2016, Private Property isn’t a lost masterpiece, but it is a terrific little independently-produced thriller—both a handsome production and a visually evocative world, taut with palpable tension.
The directorial debut by Leslie Stevens, a playwright, screenwriter, and protégé of Orson Welles, this 1960 American indie is a neat little sexually-charged psychological thriller starring Corey Allen and Warren Oates as drifters with a sociopathic streak crashing the sunny California culture of affluence and trophy wives. The simmering resentments of class and money, and the confusion of sex, desire, and power point this film forward to the socio-political concerns of late-sixties and early-seventies cinema.
Our coverage of the best of the year can’t overlook the “new old” movies—the ones that are finally enjoying a much needed push or have just become available to the wider public. These are eight of the essential items that saw restoration or re-release this year.
http://www.cineliciouspics.com/fandor-great-restorations-revelations-and-debuts-of-2016/
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