A Place in the Sun's plot is not too different from my previously reviewed movie, Splendor in the Grass. In both
the lead character is from the wrong side of the tracks, but becomes involved with the rich and famous. In both the outcome is not good. In A Place in the Sun, a very poor George Eastman, played by Montgomery Clift, makes a fellow worker, Alice Trip, played by Shelley Winters, pregnant. However, at the same time he meets and falls in love with Angela Vickers, played by Elizabeth Taylor. Angela has it all and is beautiful and rich. The storyline from here becomes very complicated.
This is an exceptional movie with exceptional acting. As a result of this, it won six Academy Awards.