Directed by George Stevens • 1951 • United States
Starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters
Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor make for one of the most swoon-inducing screen couples of the 1950s in this deluxe, multi-Oscar-winning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY. Clift delivers perhaps his greatest performance as a poor but enterprising young man caught between two women—a factory worker (Shelley Winters) and a glamorous socialite (Taylor)—as he attempts to climb his way to the top.
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Directed by Alfred J. Goulding • 1917 • United States
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Haunted Spooks
Directed by Hal Roach and Alfred J. Goulding • 1920 • United States
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A Sailor-Made Man
Directed by Fred Newmeyer • 1921 • United States
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