Private Property (1960)

I've never had the opportunity of seeing the film. It seems to be about a couple of sleazy drifters (Warren Oates, Corey Allen) who move next door to a beautiful blonde in a suburban neighborhood. The men begin to peep at her and then become more sexually agressive as the film unfolds. In an odd plot twist for 1960, one of the men may be a closeted homosexual.

Other than playing a few "art" theaters in 1960, the film has totally disappeared. Although the film is thought to be lost, the biography of Warren Oates contained such a detailed plot description that I suspect that at least one print may have survived.

Apparently UCLA has a copy of the film:

Here it is listed in the UCLA "Preservation Projects" List:

http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/myselprojects.pdf

Here is an article:

http://brightlightsfilm.com/77/77lost-late-noir-leslie-stevens-private -property-found.php


Quote:

Private Property (1960, filmed in 1959) Stevens' contribution to the noir nether regions that began to sprout like unwelcome weeds in the late '50s — when films were still constrained from even a rudimentary display of sexual explicitness — has long been considered a lost film. Its recent discovery, languishing in plain sight at a well-known university film archive, is a deliciously wanton metaphor for the type of secrets and taboos that were on the cusp of being exploded out into the open as the twentieth century's most tumultuous decade — the sixties — was being birthed. Fifty years after its disappearance, however, its audience may be too jaded to appreciate its prescience.