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A Place in the Sun: Movie

Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift

Based on Dreiser novel.  2/3rds is quite good.  Clift enamored with the wealthy attractive Taylor after seducing Shelley Winters.  Once Clift is arrested, though, it becomes tedious. In this way it follows the book, which also dropped off once the trial started.  The drama is supposed to be:  Did he murder her or not.  Technically, maybe not.  But he planned to murder her and did nothing to rescue her.  He also behaved as if he had murdered her, so not much to sympathize with -- other than the fact he was killing her to be with Elizabeth Taylor!

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