Goofs for
A Place in the Sun (1951) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: During a one-on-one conversation between George and Mr. Vickers, George explains his family background and why he wishes to take care of Angela. He is clearly seated to the left of Mr. Vickers. Several close-up reactions reveal Mr. Vickers speaking towards his right side.
  
  
• Continuity: Alice Tripp is wearing different shoes when she starts walking home from the movie with George Eastman than she is when they are close to where she lives.
  
  
• Continuity: Shelley Winters said that the walking scene had been filmed from twilight to midnight, and her feet hurt, so she changed shoes during a break. When they saw the rushes the next day, everyone noticed the change, but the director said, "If they're watching her feet, I might as well go home. We are not redoing the scene."
  
  

• Continuity: In the boat scene, the collar of Alice's dress keeps popping in and out of her coat lapel. In the close-ups it's on top of the coat, when shot from George's side of the boat it's under the coat.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): District Atty. R. Frank Marlowe uses a cane improperly. The cane should be used in the hand the opposite side of the injured leg; this promotes the natural walking where the arm and opposite leg balance each other.
  
  
• Continuity: George Eastman walks out of Loon Lake with his clothes and hair soaking wet and minutes later when he stumbles upon the boy scout camp he is all dry.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the Vicker mansion, after learning that George is suspected of murdering Alice, Angela is escorted to her room by her mother and Lulu the maid. Angela collapses on a large oval hooked rug. This is clearly a stunt double and is most obvious just before she is being lifted off the floor by Mrs. Vickers as the shot fades into a view of George's cell. That is not Elizabeth Taylor.
  
  
• Continuity: At the party at the Eastman house, George is shown talking to Angela right next to the billiard table. George holds a billiard stick in his hand. Then Mr. Eastman comes into the billiard room, and simultaneously George turns to greet him, but suddenly the billiard stick is not in his hand at all, but is now lying on the billiard table.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene in prison when George is supposed to walk the last mile, the warden asks him to come out, and there is a long pause. There is someone walking by in the background who clearly begins walking in slow motion for the duration of the pause, then resumes normal speed. Clearly, the shot of the warden standing there was extended by putting the film in slow motion.
  
  

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