John Huston's (The Maltese Falcon) western romance starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, with a script by legend...
John Huston's (The Maltese Falcon) western romance starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift, with a script by legend Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman). A divorcée (Monroe) falls for an over-the-hill cowboy (Gable) who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.
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97 %31 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
78 %9,480 reviewsAudience score rating
"A robust, high-voltage adventure drama, vibrating with explosively emotional histrionics, conceived and executed with a refreshing disdain for superficial technical and photographic slickness in favor of an uncommonly honest and direct cinematic approach."
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Variety
Variety"A problematic but provocative piece of work."
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Time Out
Time Out"Characters and theme do not congeal. There is a lot of absorbing detail in it, but it doesn't add up to a point."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"The faces of Gable, Clift and Monroe together in closeup have a Mount Rushmore look to them."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"A gripping and messy ode to the collision of genres, time periods, and personalities."
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Little White Lies
Little White LiesThe Misfits (1961) | Details
- Rating
- PG,
- Runtime
- 124
- Genre
- Drama, Romance, Western
- Country of origin
- USA
