Regarded as one of the finest dramatic films of Hollywood’s Golden Age, “A Place in the Sun” lays out the elusive possibilities out there when pursuing upward mobility.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 1, 2024

The entire production is epic, which is reflected in its six Academy Awards, as well as its gleaming star power.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2023

Watching the otherwise capable film is an exercise in the appreciation of fine acting and competent direction, as opposed to a heartfelt tragedy, salient sociopolitical text, or believable romance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2022

Stevens applies Dreiser's naturalistic, class-based fable of the losses and frustrations of American desires towards this celebration of star power, and the resulting tension between glamour and tragedy creates a shimmering, seductive film...

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 20, 2021

The tragic romance/drama starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters is more interesting for the implications just below the surface of a rather standard-issue plot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2021

A first-rate motion picture that ably mixes romance and murder against a backdrop of social jockeying among the classes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2021

I saw a Place in the Sun on late-night 온라인카지노추천 starring Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters as the scorned girl and Elizabeth Taylor as the rich one, wondering if any film could capture the book's emotional profundity. [George] Stevens' film did, and then some.

| Aug 10, 2021

There is enough gimmicky, pretentious footage to keep one's eyes glued to the screen while one's common sense and muscles beg for respite.

| Nov 24, 2020

The forceful script is shuddery, steadily building to an astonishing courtroom showdown and a devastating finale, where heartbreak and agony are certain to cloud redemption.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 23, 2020

A Place in the Sun is a crowning achievement for director George Stevens. Under his guidance actor Clift and actresses Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Taylor have come through with the most compelling performances of their careers.

| Nov 26, 2019

One of the great studio dramas of the period and one of this column's favourite films, with haunting performances from Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2014

Most of Dreiser's acrid social satire is smoothed away by Stevens' grandiose style, and it's all too stately to be affecting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2013

George Stevens's meticulously observed 1951 version of Theodore Dreiser's massive 1925 novel An American Tragedy ...

| Feb 3, 2013

Montgomery Clift's performance as upward-striving pauper George Eastman is a career peak, and Elizabeth Taylor is a gleaming paragon as his high-society paramour.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 1, 2013

Stevens's unsentimental characterisation and the pair's fine performances make this one of Clift's most memorable films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2013

Gripping from first to last.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 31, 2013

Clift's mesmerising, tragic performance only deepens with time.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 31, 2013

The power of A Place in the Sun's plot, and its most noirish element, is its ability to force the viewer to unquestioningly follow this dream logic.

| Oct 14, 2011

While to oldsters Dreiser's novelization of the real-life Chester Gillette case may be a bit on the tired side, there's a vast new generation which undoubtedly knows it only very vaguely, if at all.

| Jul 6, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 12, 2008