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A Place in the Sun (1951)

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A Place in the Sun (1951)

A Place in the Sun (1951)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | Cover + DVD Scan | 01:57:00 | 8,14 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps, German, Spanish, French, Italian - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subs: Danish, German, English (+SDH), Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish
Genre: Drama, Romance

Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), but he forgets all about her when he falls for dazzling socialite Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor). Alice can't forget about him, though: she is pregnant with his child. Just when George's personal and professional futures seem assured, Alice demands that he marry her or she'll expose him to his society friends. This predicament sets in motion a chain of events that will ultimately include George's arrest and numerous other tragedies, including a vicious cross-examination by a D.A. played by future Perry Mason Raymond Burr. A huge improvement over the 1931 An American Tragedy, directed by Josef von Sternberg, A Place in the Sun softens some of the rough edges of Dreiser's naturalism, most notably in the passages pertaining to George's and Angela's romance. Even those 1951 bobbysoxers who wouldn't have been caught dead poring through the Dreiser original were mesmerized by the loving, near-erotic full facial closeups of Clift and Taylor as they pledge eternal devotion. A Place in the Sun won six Oscars, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Cinematography, although it lost Best Picture to An American in Paris.

IMDB

A Place in the Sun removes much of the insight and depth of Theodore Dreiser's source novel, taking just the plot and turning it into a solidly entertaining Hollywood production. Director George Stevens was a capable craftsman who understood the advantages of a studio's resources. He shows his skills in combining top-grade stars and a powerful story, while giving the film a glossy veneer of class. The performances are generally strong, most notably Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Helped strongly by its first-rate tech credits, the film won six Oscars, including for director Stevens, costume designer Edith Head, and composer Franz Waxman, though the Best Picture nod went to An American in Paris.
Richard Gilliam, Rovi
A Place in the Sun (1951)

Theodore Dreiser's 1925 novel, An American Tragedy, was based on a real-life murder of a poor, pregnant factory girl by her social-climbing fiancé. It had been filmed by Josef Von Sternberg in 1931, starring Sylvia Sidney, Phillips Holmes and Frances Dee. George Stevens' 1951 version, A Place in the Sun, focused more on the developing romance between the man and the rich girl, and changed the poor girl's death to an accident, but maintained the psychological motivations and class distinctions of the novel.

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Stevens cast Elizabeth Taylor, not yet 18 and lushly beautiful, as Angela. Stevens claimed he had never seen any of her films, but knew she had exactly the quality he wanted: "Not so much a real girl as the girl on the candy-box cover, the beautiful girl in the yellow Cadillac convertible that every American boy sometime or other thinks he can marry."

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Shelley Winters wanted to break out of silly blonde bombshell roles and prove herself a serious actress by playing Alice. But Stevens, knowing only her sexpot image, refused to consider her. Finally, the director agreed to meet her, and Winters showed up for the interview sans makeup, wearing dowdy clothes and an unflattering hairdo. Stevens barely recognized her, and agreed to test her if she would allow herself to be photographed just as she was. Winters agreed, and won the role.

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Montgomery Clift was already one of the most important young actors in films, and had been nominated for an Academy Award for his first film, The Search (1948). Intense and neurotic, Clift was ideal for the part of George, but he relied heavily on his acting coach, Mira Rostova, to shape his performances. This infuriated the autocratic Stevens, who could not bear anyone but himself guiding the performances. Throughout the production, Stevens never spoke to Rostova or acknowledged her presence, and instructed his assistants to keep her out of his sight. Clift found Stevens inflexible, and dismissed him as a "craftsman," rather than an artist. But Clift's performance was one of his best, and earned him an Academy Award nomination.

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Clift's co-stars, however, blossomed under Stevens' direction. The director insisted on extensive rehearsals, during which he would have the actors run through the scene without speaking their lines, only communicating them non-verbally. Winters later wrote in her autobiography, ?He was the greatest director I?ve ever worked for. He made me understand that acting, especially film acting, is not emotion, but thinking. He had been a famous cameraman since the Keystone Kops days, and he showed me how the camera photographs your thoughts and sometimes your soul.?

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Elizabeth Taylor had been a film actress for most of her life, but had never worked that way before, and her performance deepened. She had developed a schoolgirl crush on Clift, and fancied herself in love with him. Clift, a homosexual, could not love her romantically, but the two became intimate friends. Stevens observed the intensity of the relationship, and often rewrote dialogue to reflect Taylor's growing maternal tenderness towards the neurotic Clift. Their scenes together throb with barely suppressed emotion, and the rapturous close-ups Stevens uses heighten them even more. One morning, however, Stevens handed Taylor and Clift newly written lines for a love scene, and at first Taylor reacted indignantly to what she had to say. Yet it turned out to be the most breathtakingly romantic moment in the film. In enormous close-up, responding to Clift's inarticulate attempt to declare his love, Taylor whispers passionately, "tell Mama…tell Mama all."

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Location shooting took place at Lake Tahoe in October, 1949. The weather had already turned cold, and crews often had to hose off newly fallen snow before the actors could pretend to be cavorting in the summer sunshine. Taylor gamely wore a bathing suit and swam in the frigid lake. Later, Winters and Clift refused to go into the water during the drowning scene, and demanded that their doubles do the stunt. Without a word, Stevens, in a heavy coat and boots, jumped into the cold water. Then he got out, and began giving Winters and Clift directions on how he wanted them to play the scene. They did the stunt.

A Place in the Sun (1951)

The perfectionist Stevens spent two years working on A Place in the Sun, nearly a year of it editing the 400,000 feet of film he'd shot. The film opened to nearly unanimous acclaim, and was a huge box-office hit. It shows up on most lists of the best American films of all time. Stevens won an Academy Award for Best Director, and the film also won Oscars® for screenplay, cinematography, editing, score and costume design. It was nominated for Best Picture, but lost to An American in Paris (1951). Clift and Winters were also nominated for Best Actor and Actress.
John Miller & Margarita Landazuri, Turner Classic Movies
A Place in the Sun (1951)

This film is very different from anything of it's time that I have ever seen. A man has a one night stand with a coworker and gets her pregnant. THEN he meets the woman of his dreams, the woman with everything; charm, good looks and Daddy's money. We then have a man who is torn between choosing to have it all and doing the right thing. The result of his struggles ends up very tragically as you will see. I was very taken aback by the film's sexual overtones, though it was only hinted at, of course. With the barrage of remakes in recent years, I am surprised it has not been remade with stronger sexual content. This is a very enjoyable film with good performances all around,particularly those of Shelley Winters and Monty Clift. Liz Taylor's strong screen presence is also a delight. A definite thumbs up.
IMDB Reviewer
A Place in the Sun (1951)

Edition Details:
• Audio Commentary by George Steven Jr. and Ivan Moffat
• Georges Stevens: Filmmakers who knew him (English/German/Spanish/French/Italian subs) (45:22)
• Georges Stevens and his Place in the sun (English/German/Spanish/French/Italian subs) (22:23)
• Theatrical Trailer (2:34)

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