<Li> The 1951 Paramount Pictures film A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens and starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters, is strongly based on the novel . </Li> <Li> Further television or film adaptations of An American Tragedy have been produced in Brazil (Um Lugar ao Sol, TV series, 1959, director: Dionísio Azevedo), Italy ("it: Una tragedia americana", Rai 1, 1962, regista: Anton Giulio Majano), Czechoslovakia (Americká tragédia, TV series, 1976, director: Stanislav Párnicky), Philippines (Nakaw na pag - ibig, film, 1980, director: Lino Brocka), USSR (Американская трагедия, 4 parts, Lithuanian Film Studio, 1981, director: Marijonas Giedrys), and Japan (Hi no ataru basho, TV series, 1982, director: Masami Ryuji). </Li> <Li> It was transformed into an opera by composer Tobias Picker . It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera starring Nathan Gunn in New York on December 2, 2005 . </Li> <Li> Critics and commentators have compared elements of Woody Allen's film, Match Point (2005), to the central plot of the novel . </Li>

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