A Place in the Sun

Young people asking so much of Life... taking so much of Love!
A Place in the Sun
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: April 25, 2017
  • Originally Released: 1951
  • Label: Paramount

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1951 - Best Adapted Screenplay: Harry Brown & Michael Wilson
Academy Awards 1951 - Best Cinematography: William C. Mellor
Academy Awards 1951 - Best Costume Design (b&w): Edith Head
Academy Awards 1951 - Best Director: George Stevens
Academy Awards 1951 - Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1951 - Best Original Score: Franz Waxman

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 8,516
George Stevens's meticulously observed 1951 version of Theodore Dreiser's massive 1925 novel An American Tragedy ... Full Review
Observer (UK)
Feb 3, 2013
Rating: B -- Though not as powerful as Von Sternberg's version, it still merits attention for the acting of Clift, Taylor, and Winters and as a sampler of classic Hollywood cinema. That mega-close-up of a kiss broke conventions of erotic imagery at the time. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Mar 3, 2008
Rating: 3/5 -- Most of Dreiser's acrid social satire is smoothed away by Stevens' grandiose style, and it's all too stately to be affecting. Full Review
Total Film
Feb 4, 2013
Winner of six Oscars, George Stevens’ adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s 'An American Tragedy' was considered the last word in adult frankness when it was released in 1951...
Total Film
Feb 4, 2012
Rating: 4/5 -- Stevens's unsentimental characterisation and the pair's fine performances make this one of Clift's most memorable films. Full Review
London Evening Standard
Feb 1, 2013
A good example of the kind of soporific nonsense that won rave reviews and armloads of Academy Awards back in the 50s, while the finest work of Ford, Hawks, and Hitchcock was being ignored. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Nov 14, 2007
While to oldsters Dreiser's novelization of the real-life Chester Gillette case may be a bit on the tired side, there's a vast new generation which undoubtedly knows it only very vaguely, if at all. Full Review
Variety
Jul 6, 2010

Product Description:

George Stevens' lavish adaptation of this classic casts Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor as the star-crossed lovers. As George Eastman (Clift) hitchhikes into the town where a job awaits him at the factory of his affluent Uncle Charles (Herbert Heyes), the lovely Angela Vickers (Taylor) speeds by him. Although the job entails packing bathing suits all day, the young man works hard in his eagerness to get ahead. Driven by loneliness, he becomes involved with coworker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), a simple woman of limited appeal, in a relationship which defies company policy. After receiving a promotion, he's invited to a party at the home of the wealthy Vickers family, where he meets Angela, and the two quickly fall in love. While he and Angela continue to see each other, he is forced to continue his involvement with Alice, who threatens to get him fired by revealing their relationship. At the end of a whirlwind summer George and Angela receive the approval of her father (Sheppard Strudwick) on their marriage plans. Shortly thereafter, Alice informs George that she's pregnant with his child. Stevens transforms Theodore Dreiser's biting critique of America's caste system into a glossy romantic melodrama. Sumptuously photographed by William Mellor, who frames the almost inhumanly attractive couple in some of the most dizzyingly enraptured close-ups in movie history, the film features excellent performances by Shelley Winters and Clift, whose presence maintains an earnest, haunted passivity.

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