A place in the sun

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A place in the sun / Paramount Pictures ; directed and produced by George Stevens ; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Harry Brown. - United States : Paramount Pictures Corp., 1951 ; United States : [Paramount Pictures Corporation, 1982] - 13 film reels of 13 on 7 (ca. 122 min., ca. 10,980 ft.) : opt sd., stereo., b&w ; 35 mm.

Author

Stevens George Cooper 1904-1975, direction, Wilson Michael 1914-1978, writing. Brown Harry 1917-1986, writing. Waxman Franz 1906-1967, music. Clift Montgomery cast. Taylor Elizabeth 1932-2011, cast. Winters Shelley cast. Dreiser Theodore 1871-1945. American tragedy.

Subject

Social stratification Murder Interpersonal relations

Genre/Form

Social problem Romance Adaptation Videodiscs. gmgpc

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Copies are only available in the library: sygn. FD (1 egz.)

Notes:

General note

Two discs in one jacket.

This film (theatrical projection print) was selected for the National Film Registry. DLC

Viewing print recanned 7/97 from 1000 foot to 2000 foot cans; formerly numbered FGA 8695-8707. DLC

Part of summary taken from Variety, 7/18/1951.

Based on the novel An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the Patrick Kearney play adapted from the novel.

Not viewed.

Sources used: videodisc jacket; shelflist card.

Creation/production credits note

Music score, Franz Waxman ; editor, William Hornbeck ; cinematography, William C. Mellor.

Participant or performer note

Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Keefe Braselle.

Summary, etc.

Streszczenie: George and Alice are poor and lonely people who find comfort in each other. While Alice progresses to real love for George, he finds love elsewhere within the wealthy social set to which he aspires. When the pregnant Alice appears at the mountain lake resort where George and the socialite Angela, his fiancee, are on vacation, his confused emotions lead him to take Alice into a boat with the intention of drowning her. He can't go through with it, but a misstep ends in Alice's drowning anyway. George is arrested, convicted of premeditated murder, and condemned to the electric chair.

Immediate source of acquisition note

Received: 12/10/1991 from LC video lab; preservation, paperwork in ACQ: Copyright [Material Movement Form] file; Copyright Collection.

Received: ca. 1984; purchase; LC Purchase Collection.

Received: ca. 1951; copyright deposit; Copyright Collection.

Received: 11/11/1999; gift; Paramount Collection.