A Place in the Sun (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Montgomery Clift
George Eastman
Elizabeth Taylor
Angela Vickers
Shelley Winters
Alice Tripp
Anne Revere
Hannah Eastman
Keefe Brasselle
Earl Eastman
Fred Clark
Defense Attorney Bellows
Raymond Burr
District Attorney R. Frank Marlowe
Herbert Heyes
Charles Eastman
Shepperd Strudwick
Anthony Vickers
Frieda Inescort
Mrs. Ann Vickers
Kathryn Givney
Louise Eastman
Walter Sande
Defense Attorney Art Jansen
Ted de Corsia
Judge R.S. Oldendorff
John Ridgely
Coroner
Lois Chartrand
Marsha Eastman
Paul Frees
Reverend Morrison
Robert J. Anderson
Eagle Scout (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Bit Part (uncredited)
John Barton
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Lulu Mae Bohrman
Party Guest (uncredited)
Hazel Boyne
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
John Breen
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Steve Carruthers
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Ken Christy
Warden (uncredited)
Dick Cherney
Party Guest (uncredited)
Pat Combs
(uncredited)
Frances Curry
Vickers' Maid Lulu (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Company Executive (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
Kathleen Freeman
Factory Worker - Prosecution Witness (uncredited)
Art Gilmore
Radio Broadcaster (voice) (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Mary Kent
Alice's Landlady Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
Mike Mahoney
Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
Hank Mann
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Harold Miller
(uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Servant at Eastman's Party (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
Factory Floorman (uncredited)
Kasey Rogers
Miss Harper (uncredited)
Douglas Spencer
Boatkeeper (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Company Executive (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Juror (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Josephine Whittell
Eastman's Secretary Margaret (uncredited)
Eric Wilton
Vickers' Butler (uncredited)
Ian Wolfe
Dr. Wyeland (uncredited)
Frank Yaconelli
Truck Driver (uncredited)
Ezelle Poule
Receptionist (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
George Stevens
Director / Producer
Theodore Dreiser
Novel
Michael Wilson
Screenplay
Harry Brown
Screenplay
Polly Burson
Stunt Double
Helen Thurston
Stunt Double
Paul Baxley
Stunt Double
William C. Mellor
Director of Photography
Gordon Jennings
Special Effects
Farciot Edouart
Other
Loyal Griggs
Other
William Hornbeck
Editor
Ivan Moffat
Associate Producer
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
Walter H. Tyler
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 12, 1951
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 2m
Budget$2,300,000
Box Office$7,000,000
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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. Another adaptation of the novel had been filmed once before, as An American Tragedy, in 1931. All these works were inspired by the real-life murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in 1906, which resulted in Gillette's conviction and execution by electric chair in 1908.
A Place in the Sun was directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Michael Wilson, and stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters; its supporting actors included Anne Revere and Raymond Burr. Burr's performance impressed TV producer Gail Patrick, and would later lead to her casting him as Perry Mason.
The film was a critical and commercial success, winning six Academy Awards and the first-ever Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film is sometimes considered one of the greatest American films ever made. In 1991, A Place in the Sun was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".