A Place In The Sun (1951)
A Place in the Sun is built on a true crime: Theodore Dreiser drew An American Tragedy from the 1906 case of Chester Gillette, who drowned his pregnant girlfriend Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake in upstate New York and went to the electric chair for it. George Stevens turned the story into one of the most romantic films of the decade, and it won six Academy Awards, including Best Director. Elizabeth Taylor was seventeen when she made it, and the vast close-ups of her and Montgomery Clift, melting into one another in slow dissolves, have been imitated ever since; the two remained friends for life. Charlie Chaplin is said to have called it the greatest film ever made about America.
Italy's largest standard format, the 4 Foglio stands almost seven feet tall, a poster made for the grand cinema fronts of the early fifties, and survivors from those years are genuinely scarce. Linen-backed.
- Year: 1951
- Nationality: Italian
- Condition: Linen-backed
- Type: Original Italian 4 Foglio
- Size: 55 x 79 inches
- Product Code: P2027
