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1951 • 2h 2min • Approved • Crime, Drama, Romance

A Place in the Sun

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

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

IMDb 7.7

RT 81%

MC 76

Director

George Stevens

Writers

Michael Wilson

Theodore Dreiser

Harry Brown

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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

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