George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy garnered six Academy Awards® and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.

Clift stars as George Eastman, a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman's professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, Eastman is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.

A Place in the Sun won the Academy Award for Best Director; Best Screenplay; Best Cinematography; Best Costume Design; Best Film Editing; Best Music-Franz Waxman and was nominated for Best Picture; Best Actor - Montgomery Clift; Best Actress - Shelley Winters.