A Place in the Sun (1951)
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Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 16 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Raymond Burr, Herbert Heyes
Director: George Stevens
Producer: George Stevens
Screenwriter: Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
Story: Theodore Dreiser, Patrick Kearney
Composer: Franz Waxman
Producer: George Stevens
Screenwriter: Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
Story: Theodore Dreiser, Patrick Kearney
Composer: Franz Waxman
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Though not as powerful as Von Sternberg's first version, it still merits attention for the strong perfromances of Clift, Taylor, and Shelley Winters--and that mega clos-up of a kiss, which broke records of erotic imagery at the time.
03/03/08
Dreiser's story was first filmed in 1931 by Josef von Sternberg in a much starker, more realistic manner. This version is almost cartoony by comparison.
11/13/07
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.
11/13/07
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Hopelessly inadequate as a reading of Dreiser's great novel, and as usual Stevens seems too preoccupied with the story's monumentality to have much curiosity about its characters.
11/13/07
Top Critic
Um melodrama moralista que só sobrevive graças ao desempenho torturado de Clift, à obsessão pateticamente comovente de Winters e à beleza de Taylor.
04/07/06
A timesless treasure. Taylor is at her most beautiful, Clift is at the top of his form and Shelley Winters is great in one of her earliest big parts.
12/19/02
A Place in the Sun (1951), a melodramatic film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's lengthy, best-selling 1925 novel, An American Tragedy, was also
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