A Place In The Sun

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul are infatuated with 1951's tragic love triangle A Place In The Sun! They hear Elizabeth Taylor explain how watching Montgomery Clift helped make her a real actress, ask what makes George Stevens a great director, and discuss how the film expertly toys with the viewer's sympathy. Plus: an infamous Tonight Show moment with Shelley Winters. This is the fourth episode in our Couple Goals series; next week’s film is Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at unspooledpod@gmail.com! Photo credit: Kim Troxall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The year is 1951 and Tell Podcast. Tell Podcast All.
0:05.0	The movie? A place in the sun.
0:07.0	Music
0:10.0	Music
0:20.0	Music
0:25.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Unspooled!
0:29.0	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:31.0	And I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we are endeavoring to figure out the hundred
0:35.0	best movies of all time.
0:37.0	And once we do, we are going to shoot that list into outer space. It's not a bit. It's
0:41.2	not a joke. We are leaving that list for the aliens. And so far, Amy and I have 40 films
0:48.2	on our list that we have cold down from the AFI top 100 and we are slowly going through
0:52.8	our own version to find the other 60. Have we found any past the 40 yet, Amy? I don't
0:59.8	even know if we have officially found any extra ones at this point.
1:03.8	Officially not with a gold star stamp, not with a first class ticket to Pluto, but I would
1:09.8	say we have contenders that are almost guaranteed to see.
1:13.8	There are some strong contenders and we should actually maybe at one point look at that
1:17.8	and look at what we have, what we've done maybe after our next mini series. Today we are
1:21.8	talking about a place in the sun. But before we get into that, I will say that there has
1:25.8	been a great response to our Groundhog Day episode. Someone sent me a clip that just loved
1:30.6	and it was Harold Ramos talking about the response to the film. And he was saying that his producer
1:35.5	friend called him up the Sunday after the film had come out on that Friday and said that
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