Wuchak A recently divorced blonde bombshell in Reno (Marilyn Monroe) befriends three guys and stirs their passions: An aging cowboy (Clark Gable), a cynical bush pilot (Eli Wallach) and a brooding rodeo contender (Montgomery Clift). They take an excursion to capture wild mustangs for profit. Thelma Ritter is on hand as a fifth misfit in the first half."The Misfits" (1961) was Gable and Monroe's final film and Clift's last significant one. Gable passed away a few days after shooting from a heart attack while Marilyn died 18 months after its release. Clift was dead by 1966. Even Ritter died before the 60s were over.It's a B&W drama with Western elements and haunting reflections on the nature of life and death, reminiscent of those Tennessee Williams' flicks of the era, like "The Night of the Iguana" and "The Fugitive Kind." The characters are lost souls who drown out their pain with lots of drinking and shallow socializing. Monroe is voluptuous and charismatic; and there are thematic gems here and there, like Gay's potent commentary on doing something with pure intentions while society pulls a bait-and-switch and it becomes morally dubious or outright bad. The film's also a fascinating period piece.FYI: Director John Huston originally wanted Robert Mitchum for Gable's role, but by the time they worked the kinks out of the script Mitchum was busy with another project. The writer, Arthur Miller, was Marilyn's husband during shooting, but they were officially divorced 11 days before its release.GRADE: B+/A-

sergicaballeroalsina A damned movie in which all the characters are only concerned to be "worry about what comes next." The actors follow a script but the characters do not. A vague story overexposed by the burning light of the Great Basin that does not fit the dogma of the dramatic structure: round in circles, just like its protagonists. There is no setup, there is no development. The outcome could be any. The characters do not really have anywhere to go. It is not a story in which beauty is concentrated; is the opposite of that. The film tells us precisely about that which only beauty could repair but there is no hope of beauty in its fable. A mantra is repeated throughout the film: "dying is as natural as living". Much more symbolic than narrated, at the beginning we are presented the characters: A pilot, a cowboy, a bullfighter, a dancer, a strange spinster who brags about having witnessed seventy-seven divorces in Reno, all of them having hit at rock bottom. Is not any of them the paradigm of individual freedom? Of total uprooting? When the story is already fading, dying, coming to an end, it continues, in a sense, with the presentation of the characters; One of the many faces of them, each one as misfit as the previous one. Too sure of their limitations: "Do not think you can change anything," clinging desperately to the latest manifestations of beauty. Trying to catch with mature but festive resignation and with lukewarm chaotic enthusiasm the few specks of grace they can generate for themselves. Decadence and tender pathos, "dying at every moment". What's coming next? Is that really the end or is it just a new beginning?

jazerbini The Misfits - A film that still come to the top of the great American films. Sure is a underrated movie, perhaps because it is the end of a movie career of Marilyn Monroe - who died in a short time - a little discredited at the time, because of his complicated life and aimlessly. But it is a great movie. Marylin has a perfect interpretation here, as the fragile Roslyn. Clark Gable also in late career (he would die shortly after the conclusion of the film), can give huge credibility to his character, a weary cowboy, no hope, no future. Eli Wallach, one of the greatest actors ever seen, has an extraordinary, unusual performance in his career. And Montgomery Clift manages to convey the anguish of a man who also walks to an uncertain, fragile and tormented future. Not enough this unusual group, we still have Thelma Ritter, possibly the greatest supporting actress in film history. Perfect and captivating. A photo in black and white is wonderful, perfectly suited to the film aims to show us. John Huston has here one of his good moments. The story is very good, with a screenplay by Arthur Miller and emotionally charged. The cast is impeccable as I said and the film has a touching end, where humans and nature are realizing that life is very simple. The man who complicates it. Worth watching The Misfits, and I mean even the day will come that he will be hailed as one of the greatest movies ever made

aidan I would've given this movie a 10/10 but the reason is the ending. boy is it depressing. so the cowboys gay and Guido take down mustang (horses) and try to kill them that's my only complaint why I give it a 8/10 the acting is great and it has a great story I wont spoil it but all I can tell you is that gay and Guido want to go mustang along they meet Roslyn, and Isabelle funny to note that Monroe, and Ritter were in a movie together before maybe more no wonder that work out great and both died 1 (Marilyn) and 2 (Ritter) only a year apart its sad such great actresses to be honest I'd say check it out its great stuff for anyone even if they don't know Marilyn or love her to death like I do personally recommend but be warned the ending is sad