The Misfits (PG)
Time Out says
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
Release details
Rated:
PG
UK release:
1960
Duration:
125 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
James Barton, Estelle Winwood, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Kevin McCarthy
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