A Place in the Sun (Paramont), judging from the competition so far, is the picture to beat for IQSI'S Academy Awards. Producer-Director George Stevens' modern version of the late Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy is at once a faithful adaptation of the novel, an artful job of moviemaking and an engrossing piece of popular entertainment.
Novelist Dreiser, who was outraged at Hollywood's earlier version of his book,* might well have felt flattered by the new one. No director could hope (or want) to reproduce the mass of detail which Dreiser took from life to...
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