A Place in the Sun (1951)

Academy Awards, USA 1952

Winner Oscar	Best Director George Stevens
	Best Writing, Screenplay Michael Wilson Harry Brown
	Best Cinematography, Black-and-White William C. Mellor
	Best Costume Design, Black-and-White Edith Head
	Best Film Editing William Hornbeck
	Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Franz Waxman
Nominee Oscar	Best Picture George Stevens
	Best Actor in a Leading Role Montgomery Clift
	Best Actress in a Leading Role Shelley Winters

Paramount
Directed by George Stevens
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Paramount)

Montgomery Clift hits up his rich uncle for a job in his women's fashion manufacturing business. As one of the only male employees, he soon strikes up a forbidden romance with factory worker Shelley Winters. Meanwhile, he has his eye on socialite Elizabeth Taylor, and they start an intense romance after meeting at one of his uncle's swanky parties. However, he can't give up Winters, and when she tells him she's pregnant, he finds himself torn between two worlds. He tries to talk Winters into an abortion, but they can't find a willing doctor. When she insists that he marries her, and to expose his double life to Taylor and family, he concocts a plan to murder her. It does not go well. Good mix of melodrama and suspense, but one has to wonder what a director like Hitchcock, who was clearly an inspiration, would have done with this material. Clift, Winters and Taylor are all excellent.