Product Information
George Eastman embarks on a brief affair with fellow worker Alice Tripp, but soon forgets all about her when sets eyes on socialite Angela Vickers...Product Identifiers
ProducerGeorge Stevens
EAN5014437820532
eBay Product ID (ePID)3957748
Product Key Features
ActorMontgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Elizabeth Taylor, Raymond Burr
Film/TV TitleA Place in the Sun
DirectorGeorge Stevens
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageDanish\Dutch\English\French\German\Italian\Norwegian\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish
Run Time117 Mins
Aspect RatioFull Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2002
FeaturesTheatrical Trailer\Retrospective Cast And Crew Interviews\George Stevens Filmmakers Who Knew Him\Commentary By George Stevens Jnr And Ivan Moffat, Black & White, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerFranz Waxman
ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - "...An American tragedy..." -- Rating: A
Additional InformationGeorge Stevens' lavish adaptation of this classic casts Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor as the star-crossed lovers. As George Eastman (Clift) hitchhikes into the town where a job awaits him at the factory of his affluent Uncle Charles (Herbert Heyes), the lovely Angela Vickers (Taylor) speeds by him. Although the job entails packing bathing suits all day, the young man works hard in his eagerness to get ahead. Driven by loneliness, he becomes involved with coworker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), a simple woman of limited appeal, in a relationship which defies company policy. After receiving a promotion, he's invited to a party at the home of the wealthy Vickers family, where he meets Angela, and the two quickly fall in love. While he and Angela continue to see each other, he is forced to continue his involvement with Alice, who threatens to get him fired by revealing their relationship. At the end of a whirlwind summer George and Angela receive the approval of her father (Sheppard Strudwick) on their marriage plans. Shortly thereafter, Alice informs George that she's pregnant with his child. Stevens transforms Theodore Dreiser's biting critique of America's caste system into a glossy romantic melodrama. Sumptuously photographed by William Mellor, who frames the almost inhumanly attractive couple in some of the most dizzyingly enraptured close-ups in movie history, the film features excellent performances by Shelley Winters and Clift, whose presence maintains an earnest, haunted passivity.
Art DirectorWalter Tyler, Hans Dreier
ScreenwriterMichael Wilson, Harry Brown
AuthorTheodore Dreiser, Patrick Kearney
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\Mono
Movie/TV TitleA Place In The Sun
EditorWilliam Hornbeck
Director of PhotographyWilliam C. Mellor