A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American tragedy film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled An American Tragedy. It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory, and the other a beautiful socialite.

A Place in the Sun: Directed by George Stevens. With Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere. A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (New York, 1925) and the play of the same name by Patrick Kearney (New York, 11 Oct 1926). An ambitious young man wins an heiress' heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend's pregnancy.

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A Place in the Sun (1951) is a powerful social drama and romance from director/producer George Stevens. The black and white film plays on the audience's emotions, by involving and drawing them into complicity with the tragic resolution.

Flat-broke George Eastman, a humble Chicago bellhop and the black sheep of the prosperous Eastman family, leaves his widowed mother behind and arrives in town seeking the American Dream.

A Place in the Sun, American dramatic film, released in 1951, that was based on a theatrical adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel An American Tragedy, a searing look at dysfunctional relationships and blind ambition. The film was a popular and critical hit, winning six Academy Awards.

2014年3月2日 · Directed by the great, if underappreciated George Stevens, A Place in the Sun is a powerful social drama with universal themes that remain relevant to varying degrees – outsiders searching for the American Dream at all costs, social inequality, class distinctions and such controversial topics as pre-marital sex, abortion and the death penalty.

A Place In the Sun (1951) In Best Director-winning George Stevens' classic tearjerker based upon Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy - a star-crossed melodramatic romance (and social drama) set in 1950: