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A Place in the Sun
Directed by
George Stevens
Not Rated
1951
2h 2m
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7.7
90%
84%
7.3
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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)
A Place in the Sun Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Kate Cameron
It is an artfully made film.
Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)
Darr Smith
Stevens tells his story imaginatively and with unflagging interest. You will think about - maybe even be haunted by - his telling for a long time.
Houston Chronicle
Mildred Stockard
...the story has been given a stellar cast, headed by Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelly Winters, a trio of outstanding young Hollywood stars.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Buck Henshaw
[The film's] direction has been handled with the subtlety and simplicity which is usually found only in the best foreign films rarely in Hollywood.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Mack Williams
Clift, Miss Taylor and Miss Winters have never showed more acting skill than they do in "A Place in the Sun."
Detroit Free Press
Helen Bower
"A Place in the Sun" will claim its place in the sun of Hollywood achievement as an adult picture expertly treated in every department.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinée
A skillful distillation of high tragedy and youthful passion...the film contains the ingredients for mass popularity, with none of the customary cheapness of approach, thanks to the capabilities of Director Stevens.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
W. Ward Marsh
It is quite the most moving, most disturbing and most nearly realistic melodrama I have seen in years.
Buffalo News
Mary Nash
The story, based on an actual New York State murder case in 1906, is completely believable in its presentation as a drama of today, and it is far more than a mere murder play, with its skillfully handled social implications and behavior motivations.
Harrison's Reports
P.S. Harrison
Being a morbid story, without a cheering ray of light to brighten its consistently tragic atmosphere, it can hardly be classified as popular entertainment.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Producer-Director George Stevens' modern version of the late Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy is at once a faithful adaption of the novel, an artful job of moviemaking, and an engrossing piece of popular entertainment.
Photoplay
Sara Hamilton
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters illuminate their roles with an intensity of emotion, constantly in character, that never lets down to the fateful end.
New York Times
NYT Staff
..."A Place in the Sun" is a distinguished work, a tribute, above all, to its producer-director and an effort now placed among the ranks of the finest films to have come from Hollywood in several years.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Jane Corby
The emotional entanglements of the three young people prove tragic, but they are true emotions, and their poignancy has a compelling, deeply moving quality. This story of love and frustration goes straight to the heart.
Boston Globe
Marjory Adams
...George Stevens has directed [the film] with keen sympathy and powerful impact, and the three chief stars, Montgomery Clift. Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters, resourcefully and sensitively illustrate the beauty and the tragedy of youth.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Paul Jones
"A Place In The Sun" Is one of the finest films of the past 10 years - a distinguished adult film whose impact will long be remembered by those who will marvel at its superlative production, story and performances.
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.
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.
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