ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

daoldiges There are too many iconic scenes and elements attached to A Place In The Sun not to give it viewing. Viewing it through today's sensibilities the story does seem a bit quaint as opposed to the weight it might have imposed in its initial release. Yes, Taylor is as beautiful as ever, but for me it's Shelley Winter's performance that I will remember. Winters plays her character as such a clinging and downbeat character that it almost feels like a guilty pleasure for the viewer when she meets her final fate. While there is a slight blandness throughout some of the film I did enjoy it and do feel it worth a viewing.

HotToastyRag A Place in the Sun is one of the most beautiful, glamorous classic films of all time. Yes, there are epics like Gone with the Wind, but for quiet, black and white splendors, you'll be hard pressed to find a more beautiful film than A Place in the Sun.Montgomery Clift is a man in pursuit of the American Dream. He's a hard worker, but he can't quite shake where he comes from. In his loneliness, he enters into a relationship with Shelley Winters. She's common, and she knows she's not beautiful, so she's constantly afraid he'll leave her. Enter Elizabeth Taylor.Monty steps into the high-class world and falls in love with the lifestyle, the glamour, the freedom, and the girl. Liz is perfection, the apex of the American Dream. The only question is how badly does he want her? What will he do to get her? Screenwriters Harry Brown and Michael Wilson had their work cut out for them. The book was titled An American Tragedy and it was 900 pages. I've read the book, and I don't know how they sifted through the tome and still kept their sanity.Winner of Oscars in Directing, Cinematography, Costume Design, Editing, Original Score, and Adapted Screenplay, and nominated for Actor, Actress, and Picture, A Place in the Sun is a must-see classic. The tragic story stands the test of time beautifully, and it's always wonderful to watch gorgeous people in gorgeous clothes up on the big screen, set to a lovely score.

ereinion I have seen negative reviews of this film which call its social commentary outdated. I don't agree. This story is an all-too familiar and common one to be outdated, along with its social commentary. The quest for a better life, the quest for acknowledgment and social climbing, establishing yourself from common and modest origins as a social "lion". Those things are never easy and can take a piece of one's soul. And this is in part what this film is about.The hero or protagonist of this film is a young man who was raised in a religious home by his mother, George Eastman, played wonderfully by Montgomery Clift. Clift has always been one of my favorite actors and one of the few who possessed both great talent and great looks, really few. Despite being related to a wealthy family, he is not really treated as one of them, since they don't consider him their equal. He gets away from his mother and his home city Chicago to go to California where his uncle owns a factory. Despite being given a job by him, it's just an entry job and George is forbidden to socialize with any women who work there. He breaks the rules, unfortunately, and starts dating another poor girl, Alice, played by the excellent Shirley Winters. However, he soon finds himself promoted to a higher position in the factory and then meets a beautiful society girl Angela Vickers, played by Elizabeth Taylor at her most appealing. The two click instantly and fall in love and for the first time in his life, George is truly happy. No longer the outsider, he can now enjoy a rich social life with the cream of the crop. However, Alice finds out she is pregnant and threatens to ruin George's newfound idyll with Angela.Lets note that Taylor's character is called Angela. I think she represents a sort of angel of George's, who wants to lead him to a better life. Alice is her exact opposite, a rather shabby and not too good looking poor girl who has nothing to offer George but her love. And he doesn't want it, for she only reminds him of his poor and difficult past. Angela is the bright future, the ray of sunshine he needs. His place in the sun is therefore by her side. Alice is the darkness and gloom, if he goes back to her he will never be happy again. And here we start to question George's character: does he really love Angela for herself only or also because of her wealth and social status? Well, this is indeed meant to be the moral dilemma here and as such it helps to make the film more compelling and powerful.The ultimate tragic ending only makes it a film to be taken seriously as a drama, not just a melodrama. Its dramatic strength and the performances of its three stars is what really holds up A Place in the Sun and makes it a worthwhile experience to watch it. Its theme of quest for a better life, love, unwanted ties and ultimately tragedy is something that we can identify ourselves with even today. The message? The higher you climb, the harder you fall, perhaps. But I also like to look at it as just a tragic story of an unlucky man who tried to get himself a place under the sun and failed. It is also what I really like about it. There are no villains here, only victims.

Fuzzy Wuzzy For starters - I had always thought that actor Montgomery Clift was just another empty-headed, Hollywood "pretty-boy", and, basically, nothing more than that. But his portrayal in A Place In The Sun (APITS, for short) proved to me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he was really quite a gifted performer.In my opinion, it was definitely Clift's heartfelt portrayal as the tragic George Eastman character who gave APITS's story of social snobbery and murder its depth and its meaning. I'd say that it was Clift, alone, who carried this film over its many flaws and clichés to its riveting, melodramatic conclusion.Yes. Of course, it certainly did help APITS's overall success that the gorgeous, 19-year-old Elizabeth Taylor was cast as Angela Vickers, the sole focus of George's hopes, his dreams and his burning desire.Once poor George became hopelessly involved with pretty, young Angela, this viewer could easily understand what heady and emotional turmoil drove him at first to contemplate and then commit the ultimate "crime of passion".If you ask me, I think that even today, 65 years later, this depiction of the "American Tragedy" holds up surprisingly well. It's a film that has somehow managed to avoid that inevitable "dated" feeling which seems to plague so many pictures from that particular era.