A place in the sun /
George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautifu...
| Uniform Title: | Place in the sun (Motion picture : 1951) |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
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Hollywood, Calif. :
Paramount Pictures,
©1996.
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| Series: | Great American writers series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus) |
| Summary: | George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, Clift is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the novel An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the Patrick Kearney play adapted from the novel. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (120 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in. |
| Awards: | Academy award, 1951, Best director. |
| Production Credits: | Director of photography, William C. Mellor ; editor, William Hornbeck ; music, Franz Waxman ; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Harry Brown ; produced and directed by George Stevens. |
| ISBN: | 0792104307 9780792104308 |