A highly recommended film concerning a poor worker named George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) , forced to move from place to place out of circumstance, and he ends up in California working at the factory of his uncle . Employed by a wealthy uncle, and after an apprenticeship, the outcast George ends up as the foreman in the stamping department. Then he falls for a lower class girl Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters) , the worker of the assembly line , despite a company rule forbidding foremen to fraternize with staff, especially those working in the same department, as George begins a clandestine affair . Meanwhile, George is promoted and he meets the beauty Angela Vickers (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) at a party thrown at his uncle's house . As he changes for society maiden debutante Angela when he meets her , through his wealthy relations . As the two immediately fall in love with each other, but his life is threatened by the former girlfriend and our starring will stop nothing to get to climb to top on the social ladder . At the end takes place the classic of courtroom melodrama with a rigid prosecutor , and , eventually , resulting in tragic situation for all involved .
A faithful and powerful retelling of Theodore Dreiser's novel titles ¨An American tragedy¨ with vivid acting from a great cast headed by Montgomery Clift .Theodore Dreiser's novel was based on the actual 1906 murder case of Chester Gillette, convicted of drowning his girlfriend Grace Brown in Big Moose Lake in upstate New York. Gillette was executed in the electric chair on 30 March 1908. It deals with ambition and a deep love story , as a poor-born young man is really anxious to climb the social pyramid . The movie was really criticized and even some countries was banned because of reference to abortion . This film is an interesting commentary on class consciousness centered on a wrong guy ultimately brought to accidental justice by an equally wrong criminal justice system . The courtroom scene has been panned for being overacted by Raymond Burr who grossly overdoes his character as vehement district advocate , but it being convincingly directed . Montgomery Clift gives a terrifc acting as the young with aspiration to high life who falls in love with a beautiful heiress but his happiness and promising future is jeopardized by a previous affair with a coworker he impregnated . Director Stevens keeps the emphasis on Clyde, defining his callousness and spinelessness and taking away any sympathy the audience may have felt for him . And the gorgeous Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters also shine in support . Being well accompanied by a great plethora of secondaries such as : Anne Revere , Keefe Brasselle , Fred Clark , Raymond Burr , Herbert Heyes , Ted de Corsia , John Ridgely , Walter sande , among others .
There is another early 1931 version by Josep Von Stenberg with Phillips Holmes , Siylvia Sidney , Frances Dee , Irving Pichel , in which even Theodore Dreiser sued Paramount for misrepresenting his novel by transforming it into an ordinary murder story. The judge ruled in favor of Paramount; Dreiser's motion to prevent release of the film was denied . It contains a very good cinematography in black and white by William C Mellor . As well as evocative and sensitive musical score by Franz Waxman . The motion picture was competently directed by George Stevens , being a good effort from somewhat uneven and undisciplined filmmaker George Stevens . As George made sure his would be the movie everybody would remember by getting nice interpretations and splendid dramatic moments It came away with six Academy Awards , including one for George Stevens and best director . He made five indisputable classics: Swing time (1936), a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical; Gunga Din (1939), a rousing adventure film; Woman of the year (1942), a battle-of-the-sexes comedy; A place in the sun (1951), a drama that broke new ground in the use of close-ups and editing ; and Shane (1953), a distillation of every Western cliché that managed to both sum up and transcend the genre. His Penny Serenade (1941), Talk of the town (1942), The More the Merrier ( (1943), I Remember Mama (1948) and Giant (1956) all live on in the front rank of motion pictures. Other important movies he made are as follows : The greatest story ever told , a damsel in distress , Vivacious lady , Quality street , Alice Adams , Annie Oakley , Bachelor bat , Kentucky Kernels , among others . Rating 7.5/10 . Above average .
A faithful and powerful retelling of Theodore Dreiser's novel titles ¨An American tragedy¨ with vivid acting from a great cast headed by Montgomery Clift .Theodore Dreiser's novel was based on the actual 1906 murder case of Chester Gillette, convicted of drowning his girlfriend Grace Brown in Big Moose Lake in upstate New York. Gillette was executed in the electric chair on 30 March 1908. It deals with ambition and a deep love story , as a poor-born young man is really anxious to climb the social pyramid . The movie was really criticized and even some countries was banned because of reference to abortion . This film is an interesting commentary on class consciousness centered on a wrong guy ultimately brought to accidental justice by an equally wrong criminal justice system . The courtroom scene has been panned for being overacted by Raymond Burr who grossly overdoes his character as vehement district advocate , but it being convincingly directed . Montgomery Clift gives a terrifc acting as the young with aspiration to high life who falls in love with a beautiful heiress but his happiness and promising future is jeopardized by a previous affair with a coworker he impregnated . Director Stevens keeps the emphasis on Clyde, defining his callousness and spinelessness and taking away any sympathy the audience may have felt for him . And the gorgeous Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters also shine in support . Being well accompanied by a great plethora of secondaries such as : Anne Revere , Keefe Brasselle , Fred Clark , Raymond Burr , Herbert Heyes , Ted de Corsia , John Ridgely , Walter sande , among others .
There is another early 1931 version by Josep Von Stenberg with Phillips Holmes , Siylvia Sidney , Frances Dee , Irving Pichel , in which even Theodore Dreiser sued Paramount for misrepresenting his novel by transforming it into an ordinary murder story. The judge ruled in favor of Paramount; Dreiser's motion to prevent release of the film was denied . It contains a very good cinematography in black and white by William C Mellor . As well as evocative and sensitive musical score by Franz Waxman . The motion picture was competently directed by George Stevens , being a good effort from somewhat uneven and undisciplined filmmaker George Stevens . As George made sure his would be the movie everybody would remember by getting nice interpretations and splendid dramatic moments It came away with six Academy Awards , including one for George Stevens and best director . He made five indisputable classics: Swing time (1936), a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical; Gunga Din (1939), a rousing adventure film; Woman of the year (1942), a battle-of-the-sexes comedy; A place in the sun (1951), a drama that broke new ground in the use of close-ups and editing ; and Shane (1953), a distillation of every Western cliché that managed to both sum up and transcend the genre. His Penny Serenade (1941), Talk of the town (1942), The More the Merrier ( (1943), I Remember Mama (1948) and Giant (1956) all live on in the front rank of motion pictures. Other important movies he made are as follows : The greatest story ever told , a damsel in distress , Vivacious lady , Quality street , Alice Adams , Annie Oakley , Bachelor bat , Kentucky Kernels , among others . Rating 7.5/10 . Above average .