A Place in the Sun (1951)

06/12/1951 (US) • 2h 2m

Drama, Romance, Crime

Young people asking so much of life... taking so much of love!

Overview

A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

Top Billed Cast

Montgomery Clift

George Eastman

Elizabeth Taylor

Angela Vickers

Shelley Winters

Alice Tripp

Anne Revere

Hannah Eastman

Keefe Brasselle

Earl Eastman

Fred Clark

Defense Attorney Bellows

Raymond Burr

District Attorney R. Frank Marlowe

Herbert Heyes

Charles Eastman

Shepperd Strudwick

Anthony Vickers


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$2,300,000.00

Revenue

$7,000,000.00

Keywords

based on novel or book

love at first sight

ambition

trial

black and white

attraction

heiress

rowboat

courtship

unwanted pregnancy

secret relationship

factory girl

social elite

moral crisis

romantic triangle

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