A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American
drama film loosely based on the 1925 novel
An American Tragedy by
Theodore Dreiser and the play, also titled
An American Tragedy. It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women; one who works in his wealthy uncle's factory and the other a beautiful socialite. The novel had been filmed once before, as
An American Tragedy, in 1931.