SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

elvircorhodzic A PLACE IN THE SUN is a tragic melodrama in a poor young man who accidentally finds himself at the door of "high society". The story boils down to a strong emotion, power and knowledge. The tragedy and the psychology of the main character are equally represented. Sometimes the best possible solution man brought to the extreme. Social or class analysis in the film almost does not exist. The director focused on love relationships, the psychology of the main character and finally the crime.The story is dark, emotional and rapidly absorbed. How young people can cope with the whirlwind of life in which they captured!? Characterization can not be seen in a tragic end or love affairs, but the desire for progress in society.The main character, acting alone and intelligent, just do not know how to use social conditions, but of every situation trying to get the best. Because of the conflict with itself is completely lost. At this point in the trial were his morals, courage or cowardice.Montgomery Clift as George Eastman is a simple character who is able to complicate his life. Absent, restrained and touching. Shelley Winters as Alice Tripp is unfortunate girl, who in his life do not see any other possibility other than those on which is based her everyday life. The growing anxiety and unrequited love are killing life in her. Elizabeth Taylor as Angela Vickers is a rich girl who is able to indulge passions, loves and makes decisions in her life.Maybe slow pace or contrived melodrama real damage this film. However, I believe that with strong emotion, tragedy and psychology This simply can not be a bad movie.

SnoopyStyle George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) leaves his religious mother hitchhike from Chicago to California and his uncle wealthy Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes). His uncle offers him an entry job at the factory and the rest of his family are dismissive of his poor nephew. Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor) is an upper class friend of the son. George starts to date fellow line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters). Then he gets involved with Angela. Alice gets pregnant after that first night and fears losing George.This is melodrama of the highest or the lowest order depending on your taste. The directions are pretty stiff and it slows down the movie. The scenes are long, uncut and not that interesting. I want to say that the acting is good but I think the personas of the actors are what's on display. I notice that Shelley Winters isn't even shown her face as she tearfully tells George about getting in 'trouble'. Taylor is her glamorous self. Clift is the ultra sensitive and somewhat pathetic guy. In the end, I don't like George and I don't see anything romantic about him. I also don't like the trial which is anti-climatic. The three main actors do an admirable job and keeps this from being pedestrian.

brussels1900 A major film in its day that has not--in my opinion-- held up very well over the years---- stodgy, stagy and more than a little ponderous---and the trial near the end of the picture must have seemed ludicrous even to contemporary audiences. But, watch the breathtaking scenes between a stunningly beautiful 18 year old Elizabeth Taylor (before all the marriages and scandals) and an equally ravishing Montgomery Clift and see if you can resist its attraction regardless of your gender, sexual orientation or critical preferences. Although the film--as I have said---has aged poorly---watch the scene where Taylor runs into Clift for the first time shooting pool by himself in the billiard room of his rich uncle's house; watch the famous dance scene at a swank party and the record breaking in length kiss that follows---director George Steven's camera hovering as close to the actors as it can get without entering a bodily orifice--- and you can feel the heat shimmering off the screen. If you want--read a plot synopsis of the film so you will have an idea about what is going on and then fast forward through everything except when Liz and Monty come into view. You won't be disappointed. After writing this review I think it's time for me to take a cold shower.

Jackson Booth-Millard It was a shame when it was announced the British actress, one of the last remaining actresses from the "golden age" of cinema, had died, I was certainly looking forward to seeing her young and beautiful in this film, listed in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, from Oscar winning, and Golden Globe nominated director George Stevens (Swing Time, Gunga Din, Shane). Basically poor young man George Eastman (Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Montgomery Clift) arrives in a Chicago town, and while working in a hotel as a bellboy has a chance encounter with his wealthy industrialist uncle Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), he allows his nephew to visit whenever he is around, and despite the other Eastman family members seeing him as a bit on an outsider George is given a job in Charles's factory. George hopes to impress his uncle working hard, and while there he also starts dating poor and inexperienced fellow worker Alice Tripp (Golden Globe nominated Shelley Winters), she is dazed by him and doesn't really realise his family name being significant, and he does go up the corporate ladder, which include him allowed to suggest improvements to production, and his uncle impressed invites him to the family home for a social gathering. Since he arrived in town, George has been admired by "society girl" Angela Vickers (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), they finally meet at the party, and quickly fall in love, and escorting her propels him into the intoxicating and carefree high society lifestyle he had always been denied, and he stays with her even after Alice announces she is pregnant and expecting him to marry her, he even arranges an abortion which she does not go ahead with. George and Angela go to Loon Lake to seclude themselves and spend time together, he hears a tale of how a drowning occurred and a man's body was ever found, so he concocts a plan to get rid of Alice so he marry Angela, Alice meanwhile threatens to expose him and the pregnancy he caused while at a business event, so he leaves the family so he can deal with the situation. The next morning George and Alice try to get married at City Hall, but it is closed due to Labor Day, so he suggests they spend the day rowing on the lake, she has no suspicions of his plan, he acts visibly nervous before getting the boat, on the water Alice talks about dreams she has had of them being happy together with the child, he changes his mind about any murder plan, but she realises something is wrong, and standing up causes the boat to capsize, and she drowns while he swims to shore. Returning the Vickers lodge he is feeling tense and does not speak to anyone about what has happened, Alice's body is discovered in the water, her death is suspected as murder due to witness statements and abundant evidence, George is arrested just as he is granted permission to marry Angela by her father, although the drowning was accidental George's actions before and after the death condemn him. The District Attorney R. Frank Marlowe (Raymond Burr) acting as prosecution really grills him, and his denials are useless, in the end he is found guilty and sentenced to execution in the electric chair, George confesses he deserves it, as he wanted to kill her, so that makes just as guilty as much as if he had actually committed the crime. Also starring Anne Revere as Hannah Eastman, Keefe Brasselle as Earl Eastman, Lois Chartrand as Marsha, Fred Clark as Bellows, Shepperd Strudwick as Anthony 'Tony' Vickers and Frieda Inescort as Mrs. Ann Vickers. Clift as the young man rising in society, falling in love but brought back down again by an accident is really good, Winters is brilliant as the innocent and sympathetic other woman the leading man formerly had a relationship but unknowingly gets in his way, and young Taylor of course with lovely eyes, dark hair and big lips has never looked more beautiful, and is likable being the glamorous love interest. I don't know the origin of the film title, but the story is based on a novel called An American Tragedy, this is called one of the finest dramatic films of the 1950's, and that is definitely a suitable recommendations, it has impeccable imagery for a black and white picture, the acting and writing is great, I agree it may seem a little dated with it's love story ideas and being a little too drawn out, but it undoubtedly a gripping and splendid classic drama. It won the Oscars for Best Writing, Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing and Best Music for Franz Waxman, and it was nominated for Best Picture, and it won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama, and it was nominated for Best Cinematography. Dame Elizabeth Taylor was number 77 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars, she was number 73 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icon, she was number 7 on Britain's Finest Actresses, she was number 11 on The 50 Greatest British Actresses, she was number 13 on The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols, and she was number 7 on 100 Years, 100 Stars - Women, the film was number 92 on 100 Years, 100 Movies, and it was number 53 on 100 Years, 100 Passions. Very good!