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The Misfits

starring: James Barton, Peggy Barton, Rex Bell, Ryall Bowker, Montgomery Clift

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792850137
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850130
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 124 minutes
Sales Rank: 10348
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: February 01, 1961



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Description:
Expertly directed by John Huston (The Maltese Falcon) from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller, The Misfits is a probing, exciting drama (The Film Daily) of honesty, intensity and sheer poetic brilliance. Divorced and disillusioned, Roslyn Tabor (Marilyn Monroe) befriends a group of misfits, including an aging cowboy (Clark Gable), a heartbroken mechanic (Eli Wallach) and a worn-out rodeo rider (Montgomery Clift). Through their live-for-the-moment lifestyle, Roslyn experiences her first taste of freedom, exhilaration and passion. But when her innocent idealism clashes with their hard-edged practicality, Roslyn must risk losing their friendship...and the only true love she's ever known.

Amazon.com essential video:
It was the last roundup for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, who gave their final performances in this melancholy modern Western. Arthur Miller wrote the script (some say overwrote) as a contemplation of his then-wife, Monroe, and set the piece in the half-world of Reno, Nevada. The dangers of this kind of meta-fictional approach are not entirely avoided, but the clean, clear-eyed direction of John Huston keeps the film grounded. And then there are the people: Gable a warrior past his time, Monroe overwhelmed by the world and its attentions, Montgomery Clift visibly broken in pieces, Eli Wallach a postwar neurotic. If the encroaching mortality of Gable, Monroe, and Clift weren't enough, the stark photography and Alex North's score confirm this as a film about loss. It may have its problems, but seen at a distance of many years, The Misfits scatters its tender mercies with an aching beauty. --Robert Horton



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - "Beats wages, don't it?"
As the story opens, lost-soul Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) has just arrived in Reno to get a quickie divorce. ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Misfit title
I have never seen Monroe's movie before. After reading "Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates, I decided to buy this ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - One Of The Great Movies
Marilyn Monroe and Gable at their best in a screenplay by Arthur Miller and direction by John Huston. Montgomery ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - James and Peggy Barton are great in this!
James Barton and Peggy Barton are just fabulous in this film. I'm not sure if they're brother and sister, or brother ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The end of the west and a new kind of western
The Misfits was touted as the next great American movie when it was being made. And why not? It was written by Pulitzer ... Read More

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