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...some films it is hard to discover what the director's contribution is, if any. But in "A Place in the Sun" there is very little trouble in detecting the work of a man who knows his profession well. To begin with, he has used three performers, Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters--who up to now have shown little or on capacity for honest and mature characterizations. From them he has drawn three exciting and moving performances...
There is a sharp contrast of personalities in the film. Clift plays an insecure but ambitious young man who goes to work in a factory owned by a distant relative; while he is there he meets two girls. Shelley Winters plays the first--a factory girl who seems attractive at first, mainly because she gives him the affection he needs, but who soon becomes a mere drab. The second girl, in the person of Elizabeth Taylor, is not the boss' daughter, but the next thing to it. She is rich, beautiful, clever--and above all, she represents the security...
...South Seas. She acts with no great fund of experience, but with intelligence and emotion. Elizabeth Taylor manages to play the rich young lady as a warm and sympathetic human being, not a type. Add to that natural physical charm and you've got a good deal. Clift plays a character between these two extremes of drabness and vivacity, and he moves easily and naturally from one life to the other...
...Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens' masterly version of Dreiser's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TIME, Sept...
...Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens' masterly version of Drei-sci's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TIME, Sept...