A Place In The Sun
George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp, but he forgets all about her when he falls for dazzling socialite Angela Vickers. Alice can';;t forget about him, though: she is pregnant with his child. Just when George';;s personal and professional futures seem assured, Alice demands that he marry her or she';;ll expose him to his society friends.
November 29, 1878 in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
28 May 1887, New York City, New York, USA
22 September 1907, Hillsboro, North Carolina, USA
2 January 1887, Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
4 December 1886, Watsonville, California, USA
March 16, 1918 in Richmond, New York, USA
3 May 1898, Lisle, New York, USA
17 February 1919, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 17, 1902 in London, England, UK
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
5 July 1907, Callahan County, Texas, USA
27 February 1932, Hampstead, London, England, UK
26 January 1891, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
6 March 1905, Danville, Arkansas, USA
6 November 1914
19 March 1914, Lincoln, California, USA
22 June 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 June 1901, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
10 April 1891, Berlin, Germany
6 March 1933, Hollywood, California, USA
July 31, 1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
12 October 1898, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
27 April 1893, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
March 21, 1918 in Hollywood, California, USA
7 March 1909, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
May 15, 1910
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
21 May 1917, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
5 February 1904, Bixby, Oklahoma, USA
January 31, 2013
Clift's mesmerising, tragic performance only deepens with time.
November 13, 2007
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.
February 03, 2013
George Stevens's meticulously observed 1951 version of Theodore Dreiser's massive 1925 novel An American Tragedy ...
October 14, 2011
The power of A Place in the Sun's plot, and its most noirish element, is its ability to force the viewer to unquestioningly follow this dream logic.
February 01, 2013
Stevens's unsentimental characterisation and the pair's fine performances make this one of Clift's most memorable films.
November 13, 2007
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.
June 24, 2006
Typically slow and stately in the later Stevens manner.
January 31, 2013
Gripping from first to last.
February 04, 2013
Most of Dreiser's acrid social satire is smoothed away by Stevens' grandiose style, and it's all too stately to be affecting.
March 03, 2008
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.
June 27, 2014
One of the great studio dramas of the period and one of this column's favourite films, with haunting performances from Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.
