
West Side Story(1961)
In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.


“Young people asking so much of life... taking so much of love!”
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

Montgomery Clift
George Eastman

Elizabeth Taylor
Angela Vickers

Shelley Winters
Alice Tripp

Anne Revere
Hannah Eastman

Keefe Brasselle
Earl Eastman

Fred Clark
Defense Attorney Bellows

Raymond Burr
District Attorney R. Frank Marlowe

Herbert Heyes
Charles Eastman

Shepperd Strudwick
Anthony Vickers

Frieda Inescort
Mrs. Ann Vickers
A Place in the Sun is a drama, romance, crime film released in 1951 exploring themes of based on novel or book, love at first sight, ambition, trial, black and white, attraction. Directed by George Stevens, it stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters. A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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