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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 345515" data-attributes="member: 22">Private Property (1960)[ATTACH=full]41641[/ATTACH]My new favourite film. It&#039;s a bit of shock to realise they made movies as sleazy as this in 1960, but at the same time, it feels like it could only have been made in 1960. I guess you could call it a low-budget suburban noir. It put me in mind of everything from Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate and Who&#039;s Afraid of Virginia Wolf to Psycho, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Straw Dogs.There are only a handful characters. The main three are a quick-witted young conman played by Corey Allen (looking like the middle brother of Mark Ruffalo and Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), his slower partner-in-crime (Warren Oates, the spit of a young John Huston) and their object of desire, a respectable young housewife played by the unknown (at least to me) Kate Manx. She&#039;s almost an archetypal Hitchcock blonde but not quite. She lacks the ice-cool unattainablity of a Grace Kelly or an Eva Marie Saint. There&#039;s a moment where she&#039;s by the pool, not realising she&#039;s been spied on by the two men, and she puts a sort of lounge suit on over her bikini, but does it in such a clumsily inelegant un-Hollywood way that it feels almost pornographic, yet at the same time makes her seem vulnerable and real.&nbsp; The whole film&#039;s a bit like that.If you&#039;re in the UK and you&#039;ve 79 minutes to spare, it&#039;s available to watch for free on the supercool Talking Pictures website (only be sure to skip Caroline Munro&#039;s intro as it contains a dirty big spoiler).[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/Video/Private-Property?id=c57f0845-fcd1-4117-b772-3f03a521026e[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 345515, member: 22"] [B]Private Property (1960) [ATTACH type="full" alt="9679a1e8b5c879393cd08b9ab1d17491.jpg"]41641[/ATTACH][/B] My new favourite film. It's a bit of shock to realise they made movies as sleazy as this in 1960, but at the same time, it feels like it could [I]only [/I]have been made in 1960. I guess you could call it a low-budget suburban noir. It put me in mind of everything from [I]Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate[/I] and [I]Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf[/I] to [I]Psycho, The Postman Always Rings Twice[/I] and [I]Straw Dogs[/I]. There are only a handful characters. The main three are a quick-witted young conman played by Corey Allen (looking like the middle brother of Mark Ruffalo and Xander from [I]Buffy the Vampire Slayer[/I]), his slower partner-in-crime (Warren Oates, the spit of a young John Huston) and their object of desire, a respectable young housewife played by the unknown (at least to me) Kate Manx. She's almost an archetypal Hitchcock blonde but not quite. She lacks the ice-cool unattainablity of a Grace Kelly or an Eva Marie Saint. There's a moment where she's by the pool, not realising she's been spied on by the two men, and she puts a sort of lounge suit on over her bikini, but does it in such a clumsily inelegant [I]un-Hollywood [/I]way that it feels almost pornographic, yet at the same time makes her seem vulnerable and real. The whole film's a bit like that. If you're in the UK and you've 79 minutes to spare, it's available to watch for free on the supercool Talking Pictures website (only be sure to skip Caroline Munro's intro as it contains a dirty big spoiler). [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tptvencore.co.uk/Video/Private-Property?id=c57f0845-fcd1-4117-b772-3f03a521026e[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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