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A Place In The Sun [DVD] [1951]
enlarge	Director: George Stevens Actors: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brasselle Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £1.96 as of 25/11/2009 17:14 GMT details You Save: £11.03 (85%) New (24) Used (3) from £1.96 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 4 reviews Sales Rank: 15289 Format: Black White, Dubbed, Full Screen, PAL Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), German (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed) Rating: Parental Guidance Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 117 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5014437820532 ASIN: B00005UPOB Theatrical Release Date: 1951 Release Date: November 18, 2002 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: RADIANT TAYLOR CLIFT STEVENS in an old Masterpiece December 18, 2002 Mr. Vasileios Marantos (Athens Greece) 7 out of 7 found this review helpful Clift is a poor boy who comes in the big city, to work in his uncle's factory. There he meets a poor girl, and falls in love with her. At the same moment he meets Taylor, a wealthy and beautiful girl, and a new romance beginns, which can help him to become member of the high society. His passion for Taylor leads him to a murder and to prison.brThe vulnerable, handsome Clift is a perfect pair with Taylor, in her first adult role, the direction of Stevens is his best, the movie is a masterpiece, the extras include subtitles, trailers, interviews, the film was a smash-hit in its day, now its a classic...for the fist time is available in Europe and in DVD...WHAT ELSE TO YOU WANT? Sensitive and comlpex April 15, 2006 Tasha Vukichevich (Belgrade, Serbia) 6 out of 6 found this review helpful It is always hard to make a compelling film out of an excellent book. But "A Place in the Sun" is not only the exquisite adaptation of a superb novel but a delicate and sensitive development of the book as well. An impressive achievement rarely seen in film history. We can all make a mistake....... November 10, 2007 The BlackFerret (Plymouth UK) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful Unfortunately, the hero in this movie makes THREE. br / br /Montgomery Clift, as the poor boy trying to make good, makes the initial mistake of falling in love with a rich and beautiful girl, who would normally be unobtainable. If that was it, it would simply allow us to wile away 110 mins in the company of Monty's tortured soul and face-and, boy, no one ever did it better than him! Get I Confess-despite being the most unlikely Catholic priest you could imagine,Monty is superb in that with tortured secrets etc. br / br /And in this film, he's pretty good,too! Mistake number two, though, undoes him. He doesn't just fall in LURVE with the rich girl, he falls in lust with her too-and in 1951,Nice Girls DIDN'T!! And that means mistake number three, canoodling around with a nice,but brassy and brainless poor factory girl, gets compounded. Shelley Winters always seemed to get these parts-and she is very good in them. br / br /Unfortunately for Monty, and herself, Shelley is also available, in the loosest sense of the word. And that is not good news, as Monty is now on fire, even if it's not strictly for Shelley! So, Monty forgets to get "something for the weekend" somewhere in all that canoodling, and, guess what,Shelley has some news for him! br / br /Shelley then proceeds to start gabbling away at length about the forthcoming life they'll have together as Mr Mrs baby makes 3. She does this at length on a trip on the boating lake Monty finally goes doolally-Shelley thence getting part practice for her future role as a stabbed underwater murder victim in Night of the Hunter! br / br /Well, things being what they are, Monty gets caught tried sentenced to the electric chair. But at least he walks the green mile redeemed by the love of his rich girl etc, so, in not quite the best Hollywood traditions, everyone DIES happily ever after in this one. br / br /But, when you look at the little rich girl, you'll understand why Monty goes bananas. You'll also wonder why he doesn't try a defence of temporary insanity-with all due respect to a fine actress and far from unattractive lady,you'd have to be mental to play doctors and nurses with Shelley when the alternative is the young frankly astoundingly beautiful Elizabeth Taylor! br / br /Some say,you can always have too much of a good thing-would you, for example, want home-made sherry trifle every night for dessert? Well, take a good look at Liz in this one tell me you wouldn't be heading for the Tesco's trifle counter every night!! br / br /Yep, this IS typically textured George Steven's filmatography, mushy melodrama with an overwrought edge and sublimely fraught performances. But it is so perfectly cast and executed, it's a flaming masterpiece and a film you can appreciate at several levels,tragic,melo,comic etc. br / br /And, finally, if it was young Liz actually doing the trifle making, it would surely be enough to move most men to murder! Don't be deceived by the exterior December 23, 2002 Michael Bo 7 out of 7 found this review helpful 'A Place in the Sun' is rumoured to be classic Hollywood melodrama, but refamiliarizing oneself with George Stevens' film shows it to be so much more than just melodrama. There are infinite subleties in the elaborate construction that is 'Place in the Sun', gorgeous cinematography and a smoothly luxurious cutting technique that, for a while at least, makes you think you are following a rather artificial love story about two beautiful doomed people, where in fact the tragedy unfolds in a relentness, downbeat manner that makes you almost choke with pain. Elizabeth Taylor (and I was never a fan to put it mildly) is brilliant, and Montgomery Clift overcomes the limitations of method acting.

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