A Place in the Sun
“Young people asking so much of life... taking so much of love!”
George StevensCast
Montgomery Clift 
Elizabeth Taylor 
Shelley Winters 
Anne Revere Keefe Brasselle 
Fred Clark
Credits
Written by: 
Theodore Dreiser
Plot
George Eastman, a poor young man, takes a job in his rich uncle's factory and drifts into a relationship with a plain co-worker, Alice. Then he meets and falls in love with the glamorous heiress Angela Vickers, and Alice's pregnancy threatens everything he wants. Based on Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy.
Sinekatalog’s take
A romantic tragedy about class and ambition, famous for its close-ups of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor and its slow dissolves. It won six Oscars including Best Director.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (27,379 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.