Review of A Place in the Sun (1951) by Dave Kehr for Chicago Reader — 13 Nov 2007
George Stevens, a tireless moralizer and part-time embalmer of American myths (Shane), directed this melodramatic adaptation of Dreiser's An American Tragedy, and what does not seem facile in it seems overwrought.
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This review of A Place in the Sun (1951) was written by Dave Kehr and published by Chicago Reader on 13 Nov 2007.
A Place in the Sun has generally received very positive reviews.
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