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A Place in the Sun

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Remake of:

An American Tragedy

Original title

A Place in the Sun

Year

1951

Running time

122 min.

Country

United States

Director

George Stevens

Screenwriter

Michael Wilson, Harry Brown. Novel: Theodore Dreiser

Cast

Music

Franz Waxman

Cinematography

William C. Mellor (B&W)

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Romance. Drama | Romantic Drama. Melodrama. Remake

Synopsis

George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), takes a job in his uncle's factory. Despite his family relationship to the owner, the rich Eastman family treats George as an outsider and gives him the humblest job available in the factory and no entree into their exclusive social circle. George, uncomplaining, hopes to impress his uncle--whom he addresses as "Mr. Eastman"--with his hard work and earn his way up. While working in the factory, George starts dating fellow factory worker Alice "Al" Tripp (Shelley Winters), in defiance of the workplace rules. Al is a poor and inexperienced girl who is dazzled by George and slow to believe that his Eastman name brings him no advantages. While stepping out with Al, George meets "society girl" Angela Vickers, played by (Elizabeth Taylor), and they immediately fall in love, as being Angela's escort thrusts George into the intoxicating and carefree lifestyle of high society that his rich Eastman kin had denied him.

Rankings Position

#19 Best Remakes in the history of film
#99 Best Romantic Movies in the history of film

Awards: 1951: 6 Academy Awards: including Best Director, Screenplay and Cinematography (B&W)

1951: Golden Globes: Best Movie - Drama. 4 nominations

1951: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)

1951: National Board of Review: Best Film

1951: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Best Director

1951: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Best Drama Screenplay

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Critics' reviews

"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"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Reader
"Gripping from first to last."

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"Typically slow and stately in the later Stevens manner."

Tom Milne: Time Out
A classic. "I love you. I've loved you since the first moment I saw you. I guess maybe I've even loved you before I saw you."

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