Additional information for A Place in the Sun, which has a domestic theatrical release set for August 14, 1951. The film is being distributed by Paramount Pictures and has not yet been rated. A Place in the Sun has a total running time of 122 minutes.
PG
Australia
15
Sweden
Passed
USA
13
Argentina
K-11
Finland
12
West Germany
122min
Ein Platz an der Sonne
Austria
Ein Platz an der Sonne
Germany
Ein Platz an der Sonne
West Germany
Une place au soleil
Belgium
Une place au soleil
Canada
Une place au soleil
France
Ambiciones que matan
Chile
Ambiciones que matan
Mexico
Um Lugar ao Sol
Brazil
Um Lugar ao Sol
Portugal
An American Tragedy
USA
Een plaats in de zon
Belgium
Egy hely a nap alatt
Hungary
Eine amerikanische Tragödie
Austria
En plads i solen
Denmark
En plass i solen
Norway
En plats i solen
Sweden
Illusie van het geluk
Netherlands
Insanlik suçu
Turkey
Jeolmeunieui yangji
South Korea
Mia thesi ston ilio
Greece
Miejsce pod sloncem
Poland
Paikka auringossa
Finland
The Lovers
USA
The Prize
USA
Un lugar bajo el sol
Venezuela
Un lugar en el sol
Spain
Un posto al sole
Italy
August 14, 1951
USA
August 15, 1951
USA
August 28, 1951
USA
October 11, 1951
France
November 09, 1951
Argentina
November 23, 1951
Belgium
December 21, 1951
Finland
December 27, 1951
Mexico
January 17, 1952
Sweden
January 25, 1952
West Germany
March 21, 1952
Austria
April 09, 1952
France
May 01, 1952
Hong Kong
May 14, 1952
Portugal
May 30, 1952
Australia
July 01, 1952
Philippines
September 19, 1952
Denmark
September 24, 1952
Japan
November 08, 1952
Spain
, 1955
Turkey
October 30, 1959
Finland
February 10, 1972
West Germany
August 06, 1978
East Germany
February 01, 2013
UK
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A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), is the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), who takes a job in his uncle's factory. Despite George's family relationship to the owner, the rich Eastman family treats him as an outsider and gives him the humblest job available in the factory and no entree into their exclusive social circle. George, uncomplaining, hopes to impress his uncle, whom he addresses as "Mr. Eastman", with his hard work and earn his way up. While working in the factory, George starts dating fellow factory worker Alice "Al" Tripp (Shelley Winters), in defiance of the workplace rules. Alice is a poor and inexperienced girl who is dazzled by George and slow to believe that his Eastman name brings him no advantages.After a stepping out with Alice, George meets the attractive "society girl" Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor) and they quickly fall in love. Being Angela's escort at local parties and dances thrusts George into the intoxicating and carefree lifestyle of high society of the idle rich that his wealthy Eastman kin had denied him.When Alice announces that she is pregnant and makes it clear that she expects George to marry her, he temporizes, spending more and more of his time with Angela and his new well-heeled rich friends. An attempt to procure an abortion for Alice fails, and she renews her insistence on marriage. George is invited to join Angela at the Vickers's holiday lake house and excuses himself to Alice, saying that the visit will advance his career and accrue to the benefit of the coming child.George and Angela spend time at secluded Loon Lake, and after hearing a story of a couple's supposed drowning there, with the man's body never being found, George hatches a plan to rid himself of Alice so that he can marry Angela.Meanwhile, Alice finds a picture in the newspaper of George, Angela, and their friends, and realizing that George lied to her about being forced to go to the lake, she meets George in the nearby town and threatens to expose everything to his society friends if he doesn't marry her. They quickly drive to City Hall to elope but they find it closed for Labor Day, and George suggests spending the day at the nearby lake; Al unsuspectingly agrees.When they get to the lake, George acts visibly nervous when he rents a boat from a man who seems to deduce that George gave him a false name; the man's suspicions are aroused more when George asks him whether any other boaters are on the lake (none are). While they are out on the lake, Alice confesses her dreams about their happy future together with their child. As George apparently takes pity on her and, judging from his attitude, decides not to carry out his murderous plan, Alice tries to stand up in the boat, causing it to capsize, and Alice drowns.George escapes, swims to shore, and eventually drives back up to the Vickers' lodge, where he tries to relax but is increasingly tense. He says nothing to anyone about having been on the lake or about what happened there.Meanwhile, Alice's body is discovered and her death is treated as a murder investigation almost from the first moment, while an abundant amount of circumstantial evidence and witness reports stack up against George. Just as Angela's father approves Angela's marriage to him, George is arrested and charged with Alice's murder.Though the viewers know that the planned murder in fact turned into an accidental drowning, George's furtive actions before and after Alice's death condemn him.During his trial, George takes the witness stand where he gives a heartful testimony about his relationship with Alice and about his thoughts about killing her to have a life with Angela, and gives the details about the boating accident. But his testimony is pulled apart in cross-exmination by the hot-tempered and agressive prosecutor (Raymond Burr) who tries to imply that George planned and commited first degree murder because of his nervous behavior and of his filing a false name with the boat owner, and of other inconsistances involving both Alice and Angela.George's denials are futile, and he is found guilty of murder by the jury and is immediatley sentenced to death in the electric chair. A few weeks later, on his last day on Death Row, George writes a goodbye letter to Angela explaining that although he didn't kill Alice, his feelings of abandonment and loss of his privledge life made him leave Alice to drown in an attempt to cut off his past lifestyle to be with Angela. George is taken out of his cell to the death chamber to be executed.
George Stevens
Director(s)
Theodore Dreiser
Patrick Kearney
Michael Wilson
Harry Brown
Writer(s)
Ivan Moffat
associate producer
George Stevens
producer
Producer(s)
Franz Waxman
Composer(s)
George Eastman
Montgomery Clift
Angela Vickers
Elizabeth Taylor
Alice Tripp
Shelley Winters
Hannah Eastman
Anne Revere
Earl Eastman
Keefe Brasselle
Bellows
Fred Clark
Dist. Atty. R. Frank Marlowe
Raymond Burr
Charles Eastman
Herbert Heyes
Anthony 'Tony' Vickers
Shepperd Strudwick
Mrs. Ann Vickers
Frieda Inescort
Louise Eastman
Kathryn Givney
Art Jansen - George's Attorney
Walter Sande
Judge R.S. Oldendorff
Ted de Corsia
Coroner
John Ridgely
Marsha
Lois Chartrand
Rev. Morrison
Paul Frees
Eagle Scout (uncredited)
Robert J. Anderson
Bit Part (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lulu Mae Bohrman
Warden (uncredited)
Ken Christy
(uncredited)
Pat Combs
Det. Kelly (uncredited)
Charles Dayton
Frances Brand (uncredited)
Marilyn Dialon
Prisoner (uncredited)
Mike Donovan
Lulu - Vickers' Maid (uncredited)
Frances Driver
Policeman (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
Company Executive (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Bailiff (uncredited)
Al Ferguson
Courtroom Reporter (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Girl (uncredited)
Ann Fredericks
Factory Worker - Prosecution Witness (uncredited)
Kathleen Freeman
Radio Broadcaster / Trailer Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Art Gilmore
Eastmans' Maid (uncredited)
Lisa Golm
(uncredited)
Marion Gray
Girl (uncredited)
Dolores Hall
Man (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Guard (uncredited)
Len Hendry
Tom Tipton (uncredited)
James Horne Jr.
(uncredited)
Sonny Howe
Guard (uncredited)
Frank Hyers
Director(s)
Patrick Kearney
Michael Wilson
Harry Brown
Writer(s)
associate producer
George Stevens
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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