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A Place in the sun

Title
A Place in the sun / Paramount Pictures ; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Harry Brown ; produced and directed by George Stevens.
Publication
Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors
  • Stevens, George, 1904-1975.
  • Clift, Montgomery.
  • Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011.
  • Winters, Shelley.
  • Kearney, Patrick J.
  • Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945.
  • Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978.
  • Brown, Harry, 1917-1986.
  • Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Description
1 videocassette (120 min.) : sound, black and white; 1/2 in.
Summary
George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, Clift is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.
Subjects
Note
  • Based on the novel An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the Patrick Kearney play adapted from the novel.
  • Videocassette release of 1951 motion picture.
Credits (note)
  • Director of photography, William C. Mellor ; editor, William Hornbeck ; music, Franz Waxman.
System Details (note)
  • VHS format.
Language (note)
  • Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
ISBN
0792104307
OCLC
ocm24144894
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries