Film, Video Web Page A place in the sun

Title

• A place in the sun

Summary

• George and Alice are poor and lonely people who find comfort in each other. While Alice progresses to real love for George, he finds love elsewhere within the wealthy social set to which he aspires. When the pregnant Alice appears at the mountain lake resort where George and the socialite Angela, his fiancee, are on vacation, his confused emotions lead him to take Alice into a boat with the intention of drowning her. He can't go through with it, but a misstep ends in Alice's drowning anyway. George is arrested, convicted of premeditated murder, and condemned to the electric chair.

Names

• Stevens, George, 1904-1975, direction, production
• Wilson, Michael, 1914-1978, writing
• Brown, Harry, 1917-1986, writing
• Waxman, Franz, 1906-1967, music
• Clift, Montgomery, cast
• Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011, cast
• Winters, Shelley, cast
• Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
• LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
• Paramount Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

• United States : Paramount Pictures Corp., 1951 ; United States : [Paramount Pictures Corporation, 1982]

Headings

• -  Social stratification--United States--Drama
• -  Murder--Drama
• -  Interpersonal relations--Drama

Genre

• Videodiscs
• Fiction films
• Social problem films
• Film adaptations
• Romance films

Notes

• -  LP1149 U.S. Copyright Office
• -  Copyright: Paramount Pictures Corp.; 2Sep51; LP1149.
• -  Copyright notice on videodisc jacket: Paramount Pictures Corporation ; 1982.
• -  Music score, Franz Waxman ; editor, William Hornbeck ; cinematography, William C. Mellor.
• -  Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Keefe Braselle.
• -  Two discs in one jacket.
• -  This film (theatrical projection print) was selected for the National Film Registry.
• -  Viewing print recanned 7/97 from 1000 foot to 2000 foot cans; formerly numbered FGA 8695-8707.
• -  Part of summary taken from Variety, 7/18/1951.
• -  Based on the novel An American tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the Patrick Kearney play adapted from the novel.
• -  Not viewed.
• -  Sources used: videodisc jacket; shelflist card.
• -  Received: 12/10/1991 from LC video lab; 3/4 in. viewing copy and master; preservation, paperwork in ACQ: Copyright [Material Movement Form] file; Copyright Collection.
• -  Received: ca. 1984; 12 in. viewing copy; purchase; LC Purchase Collection.
• -  Received: ca. 1951; viewing print; copyright deposit; Copyright Collection.
• -  Received: 11/11/1999; theatrical projection print; gift; Paramount Collection.
• -  Updated by qu10.

Medium

• 2 videocassettes of 2 (ca. 123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 3/4 in. viewing copy.
• 2 videodiscs of 2 (optical) (ca. 123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 12 in. viewing copy.
• 13 film reels of 13 on 7 (ca. 122 min., ca. 10,980 ft.) : sd., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
• 13 film reels of 13 on 7 (ca. 122 min., ca. 10,980 ft.) : opt sd., stereo., b&w ; 35 mm. theatrical projection print.
• 2 videoreels of 2 (ca. 123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1 in. master.

Call Number/Physical Location

• VBI 2650-2651 (viewing copy)
• DAA 1279 (viewing copy)
• FGE 9912-9918 (viewing print)
• FQB 1373-1379 (theatrical projection print)
• VTA 7208-7209 (master)

Library of Congress Control Number

• 92508115

Online Format

• web page
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/92508115

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• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record