A Place in the Sun (1951) Love & Drama

A Place in the Sun is a American drama film based on the novel "An american Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser (1925) and adapted on the screen by George Stevens. The film made between the end 1949 and beginning 1950, tells the story of a working-class young man George Eastman, interpreted by Montgomery Clift who is entangled with two women. One Alice Tripp, interpreted by Shelley Winters who works in uncle's factory of George and other Angela Wickers interpreted by Elizabeth Taylor, who living in high society wealthy. George's dreams, to get a place in the high American society, are shattered by sudden Alice's pregnancy, that will change her life forever. This masterpiece of American cinema, won six Academy Awards: Best Director (George Stevens), Best Screenplay (Michael Wilson and Harry Brown), Best Editing (Wiliam Hornbeck), Best Photography (William C. Mellor), Best Music (Franz Waxman) and Best Costumes (Edith Head). The film that marked the debut of the couple Clift-Taylor (followed by two more films together) gave an immense popularity both. Montgomery Clift, earned his second Oscar nomination. Elizabeth Taylor was engaged for the first time in her career in a different film from the usual interpretations and for the first time realized what was the introspection in the acting. Among the actors, an effective Raymond Burr. Music for this tribute is Ever after - A Cinderella Story by George Fenton.