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A Place in the Sun
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
1951 · Directed by George Stevens · 122 min · Drama · Romance · Crime · 19 frames
Tagline
Young people asking so much of life... taking so much of love!
Crew
- Screenplay: Michael Wilson, Harry Brown
- Cinematography: William C. Mellor
- Edited by: William Hornbeck
- Music: Franz Waxman
- Produced by: George Stevens
Cast
- Montgomery Clift as George Eastman
- Elizabeth Taylor as Angela Vickers
- Shelley Winters as Alice Tripp
- Anne Revere as Hannah Eastman
- Keefe Brasselle as Earl Eastman
- Fred Clark as Defense Attorney Bellows
- Raymond Burr as District Attorney R. Frank Marlowe
- Herbert Heyes as Charles Eastman
- Shepperd Strudwick as Anthony Vickers
- Frieda Inescort as Mrs. Ann Vickers
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, George Stevens Jr. Productions
- Budget: $2,300,000
- Box office: $7,000,000
- Themes: based on novel or book, love at first sight, ambition, trial, black and white, attraction, heiress, rowboat, courtship, unwanted pregnancy
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