Movie of the Week: ‘A Place in the Sun’

“A Place in the Sun” (1951) – In the words of Paul Simon, George Eastman (Montgomery Clift) is “a poor boy, empty as a pocket, empty as a pocket with nothing to lose.”  George doesn’t have an education or prospects, but through pure happenstance, he lands a job with his uncle’s company, begins at the bottom rung, and slowly – actually, not so slowly – ascends up the corporate ladder with knowhow and good old-fashioned elbow grease. Conversely, Angela Vickers (a 19-year-old Elizabeth Taylor) is “a rich girl.  She don’t…