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.
March 31, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA
6 March 1905, Danville, Arkansas, USA
29 September 1905, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
7 December 1902, Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 21, 1918 in Hollywood, California, USA
10 February 1910, Princeton, Illinois, USA
21 May 1917, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
4 November 1896, Canton, Illinois, USA
3 January 1908, Concho, Arizona, USA
7 March 1909, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
18 August 1920, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
11 January 1877, Sydney, Australia
25 June 1903, New York City, New York, USA
May 15, 1910
27 April 1893, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
22 June 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 June 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
15 August 1900, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
18 March 1912, Tacoma, Washington, USA
5 October 1905, USA
July 10, 1895 in Franklin, Nebraska, USA
November 29, 1878 in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, USA
23 September 1918, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
July 14, 1893 in Mobile, Alabama, USA
14 November 1904, Douglas, Arizona, USA
3 May 1898, Lisle, New York, USA
19 July 1891, Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
15 December 1925, Morehouse, Missouri, USA
13 December 1905, Elyria, Ohio, USA
February 01, 2013
Stevens's unsentimental characterisation and the pair's fine performances make this one of Clift's most memorable films.
June 24, 2006
Typically slow and stately in the later Stevens manner.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 31, 2013
Clift's mesmerising, tragic performance only deepens with time.
January 31, 2013
Gripping from first to last.
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 ...
