| Genre: | Classics |
| Year: | 1951 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 122 |
| Country: | USA |
| Cast: | Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere, Keefe Brassell, Raymond Burr, Fred Clark |
| Credits: | Directed by George Stevens (bw, 35mm) |
Synopsis: In 1931 Josef von Sternberg adapted Dreiser's An American Tragedy for Paramount; 20 years later George Stevens directed his own version for the same studio. The story of a social climber (Clift) who must detatch himself from a lower class girlfriend (Winters) in order to attain a wealthy beauty (Taylor) progresses slowly, though dropping much of the sociological detail of Dreiser's original. Stevens is more interested in central love storu. Both Elizabeth Taylor's abilities and Shelley Winters' scenes, as the left-behind mill worker, help this film age well.
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