The Misfits [Blu-ray]

Director: John Huston

Overview

Arthur Miller scripted this tale of a recently divorced, one-time stripper (Marilyn Monroe) who begins a relationship with a down-on-his-luck cowboy (Clark Gable). The man, with his partners (Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach), works at odd-jobs and looks for "misfits" (wild horses too small for any real work) to be ground up into dog food. The stripper, who is surprisingly idealistic, demands that no man of hers will do such a thing, and the two soon have a showdown.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/10/2011
UPC:	0883904233411
Original Release:	1961
Rating:	NR
Source:	MGM (VIDE
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	2:05:00
Sales rank:	1,317

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Clark Gable	Actor
Marilyn Monroe	Actor
Montgomery Clift	Actor
Eli Wallach	Actor
Thelma Ritter	Isabelle
Kevin McCarthy	Raymond Taber
Philip Mitchell	Charles Steers,Actor
James Barton	Old Man in Bar,Young Bride
Estelle Winwood	Church Lady
Denis Shaw	Young Boy in Bar,Actor
Walter Ramage	Old Groom
J. Lewis Smith	Fresh Cowboy in Bar
Marieta Tree	Susan
Bobby La Salle	Bartender
Ryall Bowker	Man in Bar
Ralph Roberts	Ambulance Driver
Alex North	Composer
Rex Bell	le vieux cow-boy

Technical Credits

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller	Screenwriter
Frank E. Taylor	Producer
Cline Jones	Special Effects
Jim Palen	Stunts
Richard Pasco	Stunts
John Day	Stunts
Chuck Roberson	Stunts
Elaine Walker	Stunts
Philip Mitchell	Sound Effects
Bill Babcock	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Seldom, if ever, has a movie been in as much synchronicity with the lives of its stars as The Misfits. In fact, director John Huston's gift for casting took a spooky turn in this case. The film, ostensibly about disappearing independence, has mortality seeping from its every pore. It's a haunting and ghostly film about the end of an era that turned out to be the end of an era itself. Most famously, The Misfits was the last movie that two of the biggest screen legends, Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, would complete. By the early 60s, Monroe was going in and out of hospitals trying to deal with her drug problem and her overwhelming depression. She died of a drug overdose a year and a half after the movie was completed. Gable, reportedly bored with waiting for Monroe on the set, refused to have a stuntman do his stunts (at the age of 59!) and died less than a week after the end of filming for The Misfits. The final tragic story is the one of Montgomery Clift. One of the most supremely talented actors of his generation (in the same style but better than James Dean), Clift goes largely underappreciated today. His withered and languorous performance in The Misfits must have struck very close to home. It's a movie filled with loss, too much of it from outside the film itself. Brendon Hanley