- Actors: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach
- Directors: John Huston
- Writers: Arthur Miller
- Producers: Frank E. Taylor
- Language English
- Classification: To be announced
- Studio: MGM
- VHS Release Date: 17 Mar 2000
- Run Time: 124 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CJK2
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,325 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is brilliantly tragic. The cast are superb and an ominous sense of doom surrounds the film, this is implicit in the title and in hindsight, it is also emphasised by the fact that it was to be the last film of the three leading actors, who died after shooting the film. It is particularly touching to see Marilyn in a role where she does not play the pouty, doe eyed bimbo which pursued her throughout her career. Instead Marilyn is a sensitive, troubled soul who finds, in a sense, solace with her fellow "Misfits"- this I also find rather ironic as it is as though the true Marilyn Monroe is revealed. I found this film very humane, and Miller's script is perfect in its grasp of raw humanity.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a movie, anyone with a serious interest in cinema should own, especially older cinema. What a rare find. Three excellent actors, all in their last movie. Marilyn and Montgomery are screen-stealing. Marilyn gives what is argued to be her finest dramatic performance, and she sparkles as the troubled, slightly naive but streetwise Roslyn. And yet she still oozes charm in each scene.
Clift and Clarke are wonderful, Clarke giving his usual charming persona another round but more so in a more mature manner. He also does all his own stunts, which considering his age at the time is astounding (they say this later caused stress to his heart, which killed him not too long after-- the more cynical critics would say Marilyn killed him).
It's a slowburner, there's no doubt, but nonetheless it just hypnotises you into watching it. Miller's screenplay is comendable (and one must give kudos to Monroe for not giving off a whiff of the resent she felt at having to play a part she detested, considering it to be an insult, and you can see her point as Miller incorportated some personal things into the script, which any hardcore Monroe fan will no doubt notice).
This movie is just a charmer, it can't be described in any other way. I watch it over and over, and I think any fans of Clift, Monroe and Gable will do so also. See Clarke Gable in his own domaine, Monroe as you've never seen her before, and Clift, well, playing a part that one would think perhaps hit him close to home. Watch out for a great turn in by Thelma Ritter, her usual astute, sharp and always watchable self.
"One of the most important movies of the 1960s"?? ...I should think so. Beautiful acting, beautiful script, and just a beautiful, haunting movie.
Clift and Clarke are wonderful, Clarke giving his usual charming persona another round but more so in a more mature manner. He also does all his own stunts, which considering his age at the time is astounding (they say this later caused stress to his heart, which killed him not too long after-- the more cynical critics would say Marilyn killed him).
It's a slowburner, there's no doubt, but nonetheless it just hypnotises you into watching it. Miller's screenplay is comendable (and one must give kudos to Monroe for not giving off a whiff of the resent she felt at having to play a part she detested, considering it to be an insult, and you can see her point as Miller incorportated some personal things into the script, which any hardcore Monroe fan will no doubt notice).
This movie is just a charmer, it can't be described in any other way. I watch it over and over, and I think any fans of Clift, Monroe and Gable will do so also. See Clarke Gable in his own domaine, Monroe as you've never seen her before, and Clift, well, playing a part that one would think perhaps hit him close to home. Watch out for a great turn in by Thelma Ritter, her usual astute, sharp and always watchable self.
"One of the most important movies of the 1960s"?? ...I should think so. Beautiful acting, beautiful script, and just a beautiful, haunting movie.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Arthur Miller's poignant screenplay written for his then wife, Marilyn Monroe, directed by John Huston, co starring Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift seems to sum up the passing of one era and the start of another. Filmed on location in Nevada, July through to November 1960, the film catches the three main characters each at a crossroads in their lives. Monroe and Gable's performances are amongst their finest here, but also their last. The film isn't a laugh a minute but is still thought provoking and points out that for one thing to live another must die. There is a wistful scene where " Guido" (played by Eli Wallach) points up at the night sky and remarks that by the time the light from the stars reaches Earth they have already "died" and if you think most of the players in The Misfits are no longer with us . Go see.
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Horses For Dog Meat.
This film was famously the last by both Gable and Monroe. Gable had a heart attack soon after the film was in the can, so he never got to see the finished article. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Bob Salter
Good
Pros:
*Good film overall!
*Not boring
*Good plot and script
*Good price
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*Good film overall!
*Not boring
*Good plot and script
*Good price
Caveat emptor:
*Black and White- not obvious by cover... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Marilyn_Monroe2011
The Misfits
Clark Gable, Mongomery Clift and Marilyn - curious combination but it works. With a great script from Arthur Miller, Marilyn's soon-to-be ex, it couldn't fail. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Susan Meili
"Beats wages, don't it?"
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Published on 25 Jun 2008 by Sara Chung
True Classic
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Time for a Reality Check!!!
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the gods are dying!
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