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A Place in the Sun
Directed by
George Stevens
Not Rated
1951
2h 2m
Drama
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Romance
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7.7
82%
84%
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A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
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Cast of A Place in the Sun
Montgomery Clift
George Eastman
Elizabeth Taylor
Angela Vickers
Shelley Winters
Alice Tripp
Anne Revere
Hannah Eastman
Keefe Brasselle
Earl Eastman
Fred Clark
Defense Attorney Bellows
Raymond Burr
District Attorney R. Frank Marlowe
Herbert Heyes
Charles Eastman
Shepperd Strudwick
Anthony Vickers
Frieda Inescort
Mrs. Ann Vickers
Kathryn Givney
Louise Eastman
Walter Sande
Defense Attorney Art Jansen
Ted de Corsia
Judge R.S. Oldendorff
John Ridgely
Coroner
Lois Chartrand
Marsha Eastman
Paul Frees
Reverend Morrison
Robert J. Anderson
Eagle Scout (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Bit Part (uncredited)
John Barton
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Lulu Mae Bohrman
Party Guest (uncredited)
Hazel Boyne
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
John Breen
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Steve Carruthers
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Ken Christy
Warden (uncredited)
Dick Cherney
Party Guest (uncredited)
Pat Combs
(uncredited)
Frances Curry
Vickers' Maid Lulu (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Company Executive (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
Kathleen Freeman
Factory Worker - Prosecution Witness (uncredited)
Art Gilmore
Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Mary Kent
Alice's Landlady Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
Mike Mahoney
Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
Hank Mann
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Harold Miller
(uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Servant at Eastman's Party (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Factory Floorman (uncredited)
Kasey Rogers
Miss Harper (uncredited)
Douglas Spencer
Boatkeeper (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Company Executive (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Juror (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Josephine Whittell
Eastman's Secretary Margaret (uncredited)
Eric Wilton
Vickers' Butler (uncredited)
Ian Wolfe
Dr. Wyeland (uncredited)
Frank Yaconelli
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Ezelle Poule
Receptionist (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
George Stevens
Director / Producer
Michael Wilson
Writer
Theodore Dreiser
Writer
Harry Brown
Writer
Patrick Kearney
Writer
A Place in the Sun Ratings & Reviews
Luke Erickson
December 10, 2024
Classified by Charlie Chaplin as one of the greatest films about America of all time. This one was a little long but definitely an impressive execution of acting, visuals, and storytelling. It's kind of crazy that these themes were being discussed in film in the 1950s, Paramount almost wouldn't let the director make it. George Stevens and the long fades were ahead of their time.
Epoch Times
Ian Kane
Regarded as one of the finest dramatic films of Hollywood's Golden Age, "A Place in the Sun" lays out the elusive possibilities out there when pursuing upward mobility.
Variety
Herb Golden
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.
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Emanuel Levy
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.
TV Guide
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.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
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.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Far less powerful than the novel.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
The classic tragedy, in classic form.
Apollo Guide
Brian Webster
A compelling, troubling film.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Bob Bloom
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.
Filmsite
Tim Dirks
A Place in the Sun (1951), a melodramatic film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's lengthy, best-selling 1925 novel, An American Tragedy, was also
Cinema Sight
Wesley Lovell
A Place in the Sun features strong performances, terrific direction, compelling writing, and beautiful cinematography.
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