Average Rating: 7.9/10
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Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Feb 1, 1961 Wide
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The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce Howland (Montgomery Clift). The three men come up with a plan to corral some misfit mustangs and sell them for dog food, but Gay's new girlfriend Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe), a high-minded ex-stripper who
Feb 1, 1961 Wide
Jun 19, 2001
United Artists
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The meanings of John Huston's disurbing deconstrcution of the the myth of the Old West have changed over the years due to the offscreen lives (and deaths) of the three stars: Gable, Monroe, Clift.
Deconstructs Hollywood's cowboy myth with a mythic Hollywood cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift. [Blu-ray]
An overpraised mediocrity given good faith for its pedigree, The Misfits wrangles a very good transfer from MGM, but very little else.
It's clumsy at times, and amazingly lucid and potent at others.
Powerful character study by Arthur Miller, and a must-see due to Gable, Clift, and Monroe.
A brave deconstruction of the Wild West's mythos, as well as a searing study of the lingering death of the American Dream.
The struggle of flawed individuals to find a righteous modus vivendi in an unfair and indifferent world. A sense of unity despite the suffering and hopelessness among the characters touches the heart, even more when you know the actors' lives were mirroring what happens in the screen. They were also heading towards the
April 13, 2011Super Reviewer
This movie is about despair. Despair at the passing of a way of life. Despair at disappointed hopes and dreams. Despair at the loss of a loved one, either through death, divorce or disinterest. Knowing that going in and you don't mind downbeat films there are some really moving performances from a cast full of legends.
March 27, 2007
Super Reviewer
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