A Place in the Sun (1951)

Name: A Place in the Sun (1951)
Duration: 2 h 2 min

2hr 2m

2hr 2m
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A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

George Stevens

Writer:

Theodore Dreiser, Patrick Kearney, Michael Wilson

Release Date:

Aug 15, 1951

Runtime:

2hr 2m

Synopsis

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Cast

Montgomery Clift
Elizabeth Taylor
Shelley Winters
Anne Revere
Keefe Brasselle
Fred Clark
Raymond Burr
Herbert Heyes
Shepperd Strudwick
Frieda Inescort

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Based on 11 Critics

8.0

USER SCORE (13)

Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Reviews

100

They're a witheringly beautiful couple; ex-cinematographer Stevens lavishes all his gifts of composition, lighting and texture on their closeups. [05 Apr 2007, p.C10]

Michael Wilmington

Chicago Tribune

George Stevens, a tireless moralizer and part-time embalmer of American myths (Shane), directed this melodramatic adaptation of Dreiser's An American Tragedy, and what does not seem facile in it seems overwrought.

Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

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.

Jonathan Rosenbaum