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The Misfits
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
Release : | 1961 |
Rating : | 7.2 |
Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, Seven Arts Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Marilyn Monroe Clark Gable Eli Wallach Montgomery Clift Thelma Ritter |
Genre : | Drama Western Romance |
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Very best movie i ever watch
hyped garbage
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
There are a number of interesting things about this show, as detailed by other reviewers. Unfortunately, it all gets ruined by the never-ending incredibly bad behavior of the sociopath in the group. If he had a redeeming quality, it could be not only tolerable but offer an intriguing additional element. As it stands, his only quality seems to be his deep commitment to incessantly behaving like an insensitive and mean-spirited idiot just because he can. My wife and I had to give up on it after four episodes even though we were somewhat interested in the fate of the other characters, as the sociopath is just too irritating and never gives you a break.I only realized just now that readers may think I'm reviewing the Clark Gable movie. Sorry 'bout that. This is actually a review of the British TV series with the same name.
This movie is about freedom of humans and animals. The 3 men(Gay, Guido, and Perce) who hook up with recently-divorced Roslyn(Marilyn Monroe) are cowboys and mustang runners in this scrub country. This story emphasizes the latter role. They've been hunting mustangs for years, but their numbers have greatly diminished in recent years.(It's estimated there are currently only about 1% of the numbers in the early 20th century.)To Roslyn's mind, mustangs are symbolic of wild animals in general. Thus, we have a group of men who consider themselves free, with minimal property and family, not bound by a wage job, free to decide how much they want to work to earn money, making their living largely by hunting feral mustangs. They think nothing of the primary use of these dead horses as dog food. This lifestyle clashes mightily with Roslyn's philosophy that any rough treatment of animals or humans is immoral. She recommends that rodeos be abolished because of the stress it causes the animals and frequent injuries to the participants, including Perce. The cowboys look upon this philosophy as a silly unreal attitude toward life's necessities. "Nothing can live unless something else dies" says Gabe. "I do this because I want to be a free man. That's why you like me, isn't it, Honey? A kind man can still kill." "Honey, we all gotta die sometime. A man who's afraid to do is afraid to live"The men proceed to roundup a small herd of mustangs, chasing them down with a truck, lassoing them, with a tire on the end to tire them into submission. Then, they are bound up, to wait for the buyer to come and kill them. Roslyn goes berserk, screaming that they are cold-blooded killers. Perce asks her if she wants him to set them free? She says that would only start a fight. But, eventually, Perce does just that. Gay, at great risk to his body, recaptures one after a long struggle. Then, incredulously, frees it, he saying he just didn't want others making up his mind for him. In effect, he's saying: it's time to give up this life. That's what Roslyn wants and if I hope to keep her, I have to give up killing animals, and hopefully find some other line of work where I can be my own boss. Roslyn doesn't complain about all the domestic animals that have died to provide meat for her table, unless she is a strict vegetarian. She doesn't think about overpopulation of wild animals as being a problem for the animals as well as humans, since men have killed off most or all of the natural predators. She doesn't think about what people are going to eat, if they live where only grasses and shrubs can grow.Clark Gable played Gabe, Montgomery Clift played Perce, and Eli Wallach played Guido, who was primarily the mechanic, pilot and driver of the group. All did an excellent job of acting.The movies Monte Walsh(1970 and 2003)are about the symbolic last cowboy of the open range, stubbornly refusing to give up his way of life as a wandering cowboy for hire.
The last film of both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, this near-masterpiece offers a brilliant take on rebels who resist conformity. Written by Arthur Miller (whose marriage to Monroe was by then crumbling) the script is small in scope but large in insinuation. Monroe puts forth her most finely tuned acting performance, as does a closeted Montgomery Clift as the third wheel. Gable, too, helps hold the drama together with his arcing and resonant stylized portrayal of a leading man being pressured into submission. In the backdrop gallop a few dwindling relics of wild mustang, as metaphor of those who struggle to fight the cold mechanics of the establishment.
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