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A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled An American Tragedy. It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory, and the other a beautiful socialite.
A classic drama romance film starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor as a poor boy and a rich girl who fall in love. Based on Theodore Dreiser's novel, the film won six Oscars and explores themes of class, ambition and tragedy.
- (25K)
- Drama, Romance
- George Stevens
- 1951-11-09
George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor relation of a wealthy manufacturer, arrives at the factory and asks for a job. Acutely aware of his lowly position, he longs for the beautiful, rich Angela (Elizabeth Taylor), while drifting into an affair with factory girl Alice (Shelley Winters).
- George Stevens, C. C. Coleman Jr., Fred Guiol
- Montgomery Clift
Summaries. A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. A chance meeting with his uncle after his father's passing leads to George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) being caught in the middle of two worlds and not truly belonging in either one.
In this classic version of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy," George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the nephew of a wealthy industrialist, is excluded from high society and given a blue...
- (39)
- Montgomery Clift
- George Stevens
- Drama
Shelley Winters is the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman’s professional and romantic prospects. This second Paramount Pictures adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s AN AMERICAN ...
A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman's professional and romantic prospects. 1,282 IMDb 7.7 2 h 1 min 1951.
