Also Known As: An American Tragedy
Company: Paramount Pictures
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Plot: The young and poor George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) leaves his religious mother and Chicago and arrives in California expecting to find a better job in the business of his wealthy uncle Charles Eastman. His cousin Earl Eastman advises him that there are many women in the factory and the basic rule is that he must not hang around with any of them. George meets the worker of the assembly line, Alice Tripp, in the movie theater and they date. Meanwhile, the outcast George is promoted and he meets the gorgeous Angela Vickers at a party thrown at his uncle's house. Angela introduces him to the local high society and they fall in love with each other. However, Alice is pregnant and she wants to get married with George. During a dinner party at Angela's lake house with parents, relatives, and friends, Alice calls George from the bus station and gives him thirty minutes to meet her; otherwise she will crash the party and tell what has happened. George is pressed by the situation which ends ...
Cast and Character: Montgomery Clift as George Eastman / Elizabeth Taylor as Angela Vickers / Shelley Winters as Alice Tripp / Anne Revere as Hannah Eastman / Keefe Brasselle as Earl Eastman / Fred Clark as Bellows / Raymond Burr as Dist. Atty. R. Frank Marlowe / Herbert Heyes as Charles Eastman / Shepperd Strudwick as Anthony 'Tony' Vickers / Frieda Inescort as Mrs. Ann Vickers / Kathryn Givney as Louise Eastman / Walter Sande as Art Jansen - George's Attorney / Ted de Corsia as Judge R.S. Oldendorff / John Ridgely as Coroner / Lois Chartrand as Marsha
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Creators: n/A
Description: A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
Directors: George Stevens
Genres: Drama / Romance
Location: Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
MPAA: Approved
Opening Weekend: n/A
Poster: posters/0043924.jpg
Rating: 7.7
Release Date: 11 October 1951 (France)
Runtime: 122 min
Seasons: n/A
Sound Mix: Mono
Tagline: Young people asking so much of Life... taking so much of Love!
Title: A Place in the Sun
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Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043924/
Votes: 10,885
Writers: Theodore Dreiser / Patrick Kearney
Year: 1951
A Place in the Sun got rated 7.7.
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