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ハッピー・ザ・ベスト!::陽のあたる場所 スペシャル・コレクターズ・エディション [ モンゴメリー・クリフト ] 価格:1,100円 (2019/10/1 11:08時点) 感想(2件)

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Plot
George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), arrives in town following a chance encounter with his uncle while working as a bellhop in a Chicago hotel. The elder Eastman invites George to visit him if and when he ever comes to town, and the ambitious young man takes advantage of the offer. Despite George's family relationship to the Eastmans, they regard him as something of an outsider, but his uncle nevertheless offers him an entry-level job at his factory. George, uncomplaining, hopes to impress his uncle (whom he addresses as "Mr. Eastman") with his hard work and earn his way up. While working in the factory, George starts dating fellow factory worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters), in defiance of the workplace rules. Alice is a poor and inexperienced girl who is dazzled by George and slow to believe that his Eastman name brings him no advantages.
Over time, George begins a slow move up the corporate ladder into a supervisory position in the department where he began. He has submitted recommendations on improving production in his department, which finally catch the attention of his uncle, who invites him to their home for a social event. At the party, George finally meets "society girl" Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor), whom he has admired from afar since shortly after arriving in town, and they quickly fall in love. Being Angela's escort thrusts George into the intoxicating and care-free lifestyle of high society that his rich Eastman kin had denied him. When Alice announces that she is pregnant and makes it clear that she expects George to marry her, he puts her off, spending more and more of his time with Angela and his new well-heeled friends. An attempt to procure an abortion for Alice fails, and she renews her insistence on marriage. George is invited to join Angela at the Vickers's holiday lake house over Labor Day, and excuses himself to Alice, saying that the visit will advance his career and accrue to the benefit of the coming child.
George and Angela spend time at secluded Loon Lake, where Angela tells George the story of a couple's supposed drowning there, with the man's body never being found.
Meanwhile, Alice finds a picture in the newspaper of George and Angela boating with friends, and realizes that George lied to her about his intentions for wanting to go to the lake. During a dinner which is attended by the Eastman and Vickers families, George appears to be on the verge of finally advancing into the business and social realm that he has long sought. However, Alice phones the house during the dinner party and asks to speak with George. She tells him that she is at the bus station and that if he does not come to get her, she will come to where he is and expose him. Visibly shaken, he announces to the families that his mother is ill and that he must leave, but promises Angela that he will return. The next morning, George and Alice drive to City Hall to get married but they find it closed for Labor Day. George is relieved. Remembering the story Angela had told him about the drowned couple, and knowing that Alice can't swim, George suggests spending the day at the nearby lake; Alice unsuspectingly agrees.
When they get to the lake, George pulls the car's choke to feign it being out of gas in order to hide the car in the woods. He acts nervously when he rents a boat from a man who seems to deduce that George gave him a false name; the man's suspicions are aroused more when George asks him whether any other boaters are on the lake (none are). While they are out on the lake, Alice confesses her dreams about their happy future together with their child. As George apparently takes pity on her, Alice tries to stand up in the boat, causing it to capsize, and Alice drowns.
George escapes, swims to shore, suspiciously confronts campers on his way back to the car, and eventually drives to the Vickers' lodge. There, he tries to relax, but is increasingly tense. He says nothing to anyone about having been on the lake or about what happened there. Meanwhile, Alice's body is discovered and her death is treated as a murder almost from the first moment, while an abundant amount of evidence and witness reports stack up against George. Just as Angela's father approves Angela's marriage to him, George is arrested and charged with Alice's murder. George's furtive actions before and after Alice's death condemn him. His denials are futile, and he is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. Near the end, he agrees when the priest suggests that, although he did not kill Alice, he did not act to save her because he was thinking of Angela. The priest then states that, in his heart, it was murder.
Later, Angela visits George in prison, saying that she will always love him, and George slowly marches toward his execution.



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Cast
Montgomery Clift as George Eastman モンゴメリー・クリフト
Elizabeth Taylor as Angela Vickers　エリザベス・テイラー
Shelley Winters as Alice Tripp　シェリー・ウィンタース
Anne Revere as Hannah Eastman　アン・リヴィア
Fred Clark as Bellows　フレッド・クラーク
Herbert Heyes as Charles Eastman　ハーバート・ヘイス

写真はこちらから


Academy Awards
Won
Best Director (George Stevens)
Best Cinematography , Black and White
Best Costume Design , Black and White
Best Film Editing
Best Original Score
Best Adapted Screenplay

Nominated
Best Actor (Montgomery Clift)
Best Actress (Shelly WInters)
Best Picture


1951年の作品「陽のあたる場所」
ジョージ・スティーブン監督作品。

セオドア・ドライサーの小説「アメリカの悲劇」が原作。
この小説は1906年に発生したグレース・ブラウン殺人事件から感化されたもの。

より良い生活を求め、Aliceという女性と付き合い始めささやかな幸せを感じてきたGeorge。
だがそこにエリザベス・テイラー演じるAngelaが現れ、出世欲が強いGeorgeはAngelaと付き合うようになる。
そこでAliceが邪魔になっていき、殺害しようとして湖に呼び出すが、彼女が立ち上がった時にボートが転覆してGeorgeは殺人容疑をかけられるのであった・・・という話。
ようは三角関係ですね。
内容は思いサスペンスです。