115
Release date 14th August 1951
Country : USA
Running time : 122 mins
Genre : Drama, Romance
Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
Screenplay based on An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Directed by George Stevens
A Paramount Picture
A chance meeting
with a long lost uncle leads George Eastman to a job with a future and
he also falls in love with beautiful Angela Vickers. Alice Tripp though
won't be discarded that easily until a fateful Labor Day weekend at the
Vickers lakeside home.
This doomed romance is incredibly
erotic (more so than many modern films where they can show anything)
and beautifully photographed. It helped tremendously of course that it
featured two of the most beautiful people ever to appear in film
Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor who never looked lovelier than
she does here. Shelley Winters gives a fine performance too as the
woman Clift would rather disappeared.
The film is based on the true story of Chester Gillette, who murdered his pregnant girlfriend in 1906 and was executed in 1908.
DVD
available from Paramount Home Video :
http://www.amazon.com/
DVD Verdict
DVD Movie Guide
116 114
Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2005.
Copyright © The Fedora Chronicles
A Place In The Sun image from
http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/
