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Bookmark this pageThe Misfits (1960)
Director: John Huston
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A superbly shot anti-Western, constantly dragged down by Arthur Miller's verbose, cloyingly glib script about emotional cripples searching for a meaning to life in the twilight of the American frontier, with Monroe as the Reno divorcee who becomes a sort of earth mother/conscience to a group of ex-cowboys scratching an unhappy living around the rodeos. Lent a testamentary (almost prophetic) gloss when it proved to be the end of the line for both Gable and Monroe, with Clift - giving the best performance in the film - to follow soon after. But it really comes good only in the mustang round-up at the end, an overly symbolic but nevertheless magnificent sequence.Author: TM
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- Dede said...
- Posted on Feb 25 2011 23:44 A classic. Very well done. Nice story telling full of life lessons. Great film making!
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Cast & crew
Director: John Huston
Producer: Frank E Taylor
Cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Thelma Ritter, Estelle Winwood, James Barton, Kevin McCarthy full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Rated: PG
Duration: 125 mins
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