Directed By:George Stevens
Written By:Theodore Dreiser, Patrick Kearney, Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
A Place in the Sun
Metascore
Generally Favorable
76
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
76
73% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
27% Mixed
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100
They're a witheringly beautiful couple; ex-cinematographer Stevens lavishes all his gifts of composition, lighting and texture on their closeups. [05 Apr 2007, p.C10]
100
One of the major successes of A Place in the Sun is the way it delicately obfuscates the distinction between romantic longing and personal ambition.
100
Glorious.
80
Stevens has mounted his production lavishly. Undoubtedly cognizant of the shortcomings of the story itself as popular entertainment, studio toppers have wisely permitted the film every possible compensating advantage. The result is a big picture in both concept and execution.
70
Whatever one's reservations about this famous film, it is impressive, and in the love scene between Taylor and Clift, physical desire seems palpable.
60
The chemistry between Clift and Taylor is unmistakeable – this is one of the great cinematic portraits of untamed desire – and there’s a compelling sense of unavoidable destiny, of a societal trap slowly, inexorably snapping shut.
40
George Stevens, a tireless moralizer and part-time embalmer of American myths (Shane), directed this melodramatic adaptation of Dreiser's An American Tragedy, and what does not seem facile in it seems overwrought.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.5
86% Positive
19 Ratings
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5% Mixed
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Sep 5, 2021
8
A Place in the Sun is one very good work that has some great elements in it.
Story here started rather slow for my taste but as time was passing I started to like this film more and more.
Third act was most nicely done and courtroom scene was done in very good way.
Characters were also done in solid way and they had some kind of depth in them.
Actin was great from entire cast expecely from Taylor and Clift while look of picture was to nice to look at.
Sep 7, 2019
7
Tragic soap opera, stunningly photographed, and well acted by Elizabeth Taylor, and in probably his best performance, Montgomery Clift. Taylor has never looked more beautiful onscreen, so Clift's angst ridden choices to stay with his pregnant wife, or peruse true happiness, provides the guts that sell this movie.
Production Company:
- Paramount Pictures
Release Date:Aug 14, 1951
Duration:2 h 2 m
Tagline:Love that paid the severest of all penalties!
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 6 Wins & 9 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Photoplay Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
