Making "The Misfits"
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Actor: Arthur Miller, Clark Gable, Marilyn MonroeDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 55 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Making "The Misfits"
Movie Review: Making "The Misfits" DVD review
Summary: 5 Stars
Making The Misfits is an insightful look at the ups and downs that the actors and film crew went through while making this much-anticipated movie that just didn't make it as a big screen event. On paper, it had everything to make it shine bright--huge stars like Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Cliff and a young Eli Wallach. Arthur Miller had molded the script for his then-wife Marilyn and with John Huston on board as director everything seemed rosy at first. Unfortunately, we learn that there was anything but roses on the set and there was considerable heartache in the personal lives of the people working on the movie.
I don't want to give away too much, but as we know Marilyn Monroe was not feeling her best at that time and her usual tardiness resulted in hours of delays and quick scrambles to determine which scenes would be shot that day or postponed for another day. It seemed as if everything that could go wrong did go wrong: even though they were out in the countryside of Nevada, planes would fly overhead making it impossible to film the actors. Eli Wallach was initially somewhat intimidated by the notion of working with the very iconic Clark Gable; and Gable wasn't too enamored of Marilyn's habitual lateness and other personality traits. In addition, Marilyn's marriage to Arthur Miller was going downhill quite noticeably during the production of the picture.
There's a good deal more of archival footage and we get relatively recent interviews with people who were young at the time and remember the making of this film. Perhaps some of the best interview footage comes from Arthur Miller and Eli Wallach themselves; they were both still living at the time this was made (Miller has since passed away) and they both tell fascinating stories about the production of The Misfits.
I recommend this film for film buffs; and of course any fan of the principal actors in this movie will want to have this, too.
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