A place in the Sun by George Stevens (1951)
The Belcourt continues its tribute to Elizabeth Taylor this week with A Place in the Sun, George Stevens' 1951 version of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. If you've never understood the appeal of black-and-white movies or old movie stars, this offers a litmus test — the pairing of Taylor and Montgomery Clift, in this scene a kind of fever dream of Golden Age Hollywood glamour. These faces seem 20 feet high even on a computer monitor.
