A sterling performance by Olivier is the centerpiece of this drama based on the novel by Sister Carrie by Dreiser. When a farm girl follows her dreams to turn-of-the-century Chicago, she enters a...

A sterling performance by Olivier is the centerpiece of this drama based on the novel by Sister Carrie by Dreiser. When a farm girl follows her dreams to turn-of-the-century Chicago, she enters a bleak world of grueling, poorly-paid factory work. Determined to better her condition, she attaches herself to a salesman and then to a married restaurant manager who loses everything in order to keep her. As she ascends to success in the footlights, she leaves behind the man who rescued her.