A Place in the Sun

This is a movie about George Eastman (Clift), a young, gentle laborer without social standing who longs for the better things in life…He is swept off his feet after a chance encounter with wealth, success and upper-class snobbery… George is introduced... Full review

Time does extraordinary things with greatness. If nothing else it confirms it. "A Place in the Sun" is a remarkable example of that theory. I rushed to buy a DVD after watching a BBC documentary on ELizabeth Taylor to celebrate... Full review

Poor and uneducated George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) unwittingly sets a trap for himself when he takes an entry-level job at his rich uncle's factory, which has a prohibition on male employees dating female employees. He just can't resist one of... Full review

Standout film which was a remake of An American Tragedy with the late Sylvia Sidney. The film was remade in 1951 with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters. The culture of rich vs. poor is explored in this film. Lonely... Full review

...Had more impact on this then 12 year old than any motion picture I have seen in my 66 years. To see Monty's character blow his life with what was the most precious and knockout gorgeous female in history, had to... Full review

This 1950s melodrama was an interesting, involving story. It's part film-noir, too, which I liked. I say that because the last third of the film featured an expectation of some dreaded act about to be committed, giving it a film... Full review

In 1906 there resided in upstate New York a young man named Chester Gillette. Mr. Gillette was good looking and ambitious, and hoped to better his social and financial situation by family connections and a socially advantageous marriage to a wealthy... Full review

Bringing Theodore Dreiser's sprawling novel An American Tragedy to the screen must have been a daunting task, made harder by the constraints Paramount imposed on director George Stevens. The studio had lost big on a version made 20 years earlier,... Full review

booze, before the drugs, before the countless tragedies and health scares. What I enjoyed most about this movie was not only Elizabeth Taylor's extraordinary beauty, (as well as that of the Lake Tahoe, California area), but also seeing Elizabeth when... Full review

A Place in the Sun first caught my attention in an article I had read about Montgomery Clift. Even though the article went into no great depth about explaining the plot or story-line of the film, what was written about... Full review

Stevens was nominated for Oscars five times and won twice for the 1950s films A Place In The Sun and Giant but increasingly he tended to make garish and gargantuan movies But the compromise leads to a false ending and a prolonged anti-climax which slows the film to a crawl, deadening the effect of three lively and charming performances. ... Full Review

Both the venue and the film are as good as it gets. A Place In The Sun is based on an award winning novel, An American Tragedy written by Theodore Dreiser, and on a play. He received five best director nominations and won twice. ... Full Review

A Place in the Sun won six Oscars, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography ... Full Review

A Place in the Sun won six Oscars, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography ... Full Review

A Place in the Sun won six Oscars, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography ... Full Review

Nineteen23, a new monthly program dedicated to "films that were screened in schools instead of theaters, in small places instead of big ones, and for specialized audiences instead of general ones," begins tonight at the Maryland Art Place with a... ... Full Article

There's a reason movies make for an ideal date: What's more romantic than cozying up in the dark, watching something inspiring on screen? And there are plenty of great Valentine's Day options at the art houses, from "The Awful Truth"... ... Full Article

A new novel by Sarah Waters is always going to cause great excitement, and I'm looking forward to her new ghost story immensely. But I was taken aback to find that it is going to be called The Little Stranger:... ... Full Article

View image Imprinted on/in your head...He develops protective feelings for a young girl in the Hollywood fast-lane (echoes of Travis Bickle and Iris).He takes her to the Fine Arts for a revival of "A Place in the Sun." ... Full Article

For most film lovers 1951 is the year Marlon Brando bellowed out "Stellaaaaa" in "A Streetcar Named Desire," Humphrey Bogart battled Germans in "The African Queen" and Shelley Winters found "A Place in the Sun." ... Full Article

Filmed before as an early talkie by Josef Von Sternberg, Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy was just the 'serious' picture that George Stevens wanted to begin his string of personal postwar films. ... Full Article