A working class man (Montgomery Clift) is torn between two very different worlds. Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor) is a socialite unlike anyone George has met before, & Alice Tripp (Shelley...

A working class man (Montgomery Clift) is torn between two very different worlds. Angela Vickers (Elizabeth Taylor) is a socialite unlike anyone George has met before, & Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters) is far to close to the working-class life he has led. George gets Alice pregnant, then falls in love with heiress Angela. Alice discovers his duplicity & insists on getting married. To solve his problem, George resolves to trick Alice into a canoe trip with the intent of killing her. She drowns, but was it murder, or did George have a change of heart & honestly try to save her life instead? Based on Theodore Dreiser's classic account, "An American Tragedy," about the real-life 1906 New York murder case involving Chester Gillette & Grace Brown.