The Misfits
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Movie Reviews of The Misfits
Movie Review: A SAGA OF THE NEW WEST
Summary: 4 Stars
What is not to like about a movie set in the modern American West where civilization is fast taking the starch out of the independent-minded cowboys and their hangers-on and they are trying to hold on for dear life. Obviously they had not read Professor Turner's thesis on the end of the Aerican frontier. Nevertheless the code of the old West and its values was losing its effect by the day to the ethos of the modern capitalist farmer and rancher. Larry McMurtry and others have also taken up this theme but none have done it better on film.
Add a screenplay by the legendary playwright Arthur Miller. Further add the strong performances, aided by the black and white format, of a grizzled Clark Gable, the ill-fated Marilyn Monroe and the troubled Montgomery Clift supported by Thelma Ritter and Eli Wallach and you have a very good film indeed. I have read that Miller's screenplay was written especially for Monroe, then his wife. If so that explains why this story about castoffs, drifters and non-conformists looking for some emotional relief in the 'new' West that has passed them by had such a powerful effect on me. Monroe as the beautiful but hard luck and misunderstood object of affection seemingly was playing herself here. And to great effect. Watch it.
Movie Review: Marilyn is just too damn good for this world.
Summary: 4 Stars
Existential despair, pain and misery. It's all here! It's John Huston's opus and as we all know, both Gable and Monroe's last film. Clift didn't have much longer to live, either. This tale, redolent of all the sadder emotions mentioned above, coupled with the end of its stars' actual lives, just sort of hangs in the sky like that star, inert yet filled with gusto. Eli Wallach (bless his heart-still goin' strong) is all too believable as the kind of character whose emotions and motives turn on a dime. Gable shows a conflicted, tortured side, especially when his character pathetically hollers for his children in the street of the honky tonk town (I'm betting his kids' presence at the bar was a hallucination.) Clift bursts out in the rodeo sequence, stealing all the scenes he's in, then fades into the background like a gentleman for the final act. But yes, it's Marilyn's movie. The words her then husband Arthur Miller wrote for her just come trickling painfully out of her mouth, hesitantly, like zen koans. All the characters have greater concerns on their minds, ie: the nature of existence, why it hurts so much to live, this cruel world and our place in it. Misfits, indeed.Movie Review: Misfit title
Summary: 4 Stars
I have never seen Monroe's movie before. After reading "Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates, I decided to buy this and several other Monroe DVD's. This was the first one I saw. Wow, what a beautiful actress! She makes today's actresses pale in comparison. You can tell Authur Miller wrote this screenplay with a lot of love to his beautiful wife. It was well casted; however, I disagree with the title. I don't think any of them were misfits. They just don't know what they want out of life - confused maybe, but not misfits. The chase scene with the horses was amazing. Director John Houston was a genius! I think Gable played a memorable role here, more so than in "Gone with the Wind", but that's just my opinion. The reason why I gave the movie a 4 star rather than a 5 star is 1) the title (which I didn't think fit the movie) and 2) the ending (which I thought was corny.) Overall, a great classic movie. It's a shame this was the last movie for both Monroe and Gable. (Just this very afternoon, I saw on the news that an extra on this movie had taken a home video on the set. His family is now auctioning off this footage.)Movie Review: James and Peggy Barton are great in this!
Summary: 4 Stars
James Barton and Peggy Barton are just fabulous in this film. I'm not sure if they're brother and sister, or brother and transvestite, but they're just wonderful. I'm not even quite sure who they are in the film, but they sure are terrific. Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable are in the film too, it was the last film either of them made. And Thelma Ritter offers great support, and Montgomery Clift and Eli Wallach are excellent too. But I can see why Amazon stresses the contributions of the Bartons. Here's to them! (P.S. I'm joking of course. I just find it weird that Amazon's computer is clearly set up to list the actors alphabetically, and so weirdly "the Misfits" is said to star James Barton. Amazon seems to correct this alphabetical default in some of their listing. And Monroe, Gable, Wallach, clift and the wonderful Thelma Ritter are very memorable in this movie.)Movie Review: This movie smells death!
Summary: 4 Stars
MY RATING- 7.7That's right, this mov smells death cause it looks really profetic of what would happen to Marylin, Monty and Gable. Gable doesn't look mature, he looks old and tired. I know that he insisted doing many of the stunt work, yet seeing him we believe why he died little time after. Marylin looks more from another world , the scene when she screams calling "murderers" is as if she was incriminating those who leaded her to suicide. Some fresh air comes from Monty, yet his pensive character is profetic how he would die few years later. In some few words, the title says all, it's about three misfits, that try find his place in the world.
Psychological drama, that is overpassed by the master "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf". Also nice cinematography, good directing by John Huston as well as excellent secondaries- Thelma Rhitter an Eli Wallach.