Bus Stop (1956)

Monroe is pretty great in this, despite some minor accent slips, but Bo Decker has to be the most irritating character ever to appear in anything. Although the plot purports to be a romantic comedy, it's more like a horror film, watching this awful man torment and…

ghostsarereal

this is legitimately terrifying I’ve never been so annoyed and in distress for a female character before

jade

This ain’t it. Marilyn deserved way better than this

ty

Imagine thinking you're good enough to marry Marilyn Monroe

Robin

Don Murray being nominated for an Oscar instead of Marilyn is some kind of violence I can’t wholly describe.

Robert Daniels

Monroe is fantastic here but this is a horror movie masquerading as comedy, a film about a grotesquely possessive hillbilly psychopath that is solipsistic to a fault and is willing to lasso a woman (definitely intended as humor) onto a bus to keep her from leaving him —…

Justin LaLiberty

This is a really creepy train wreck.  The whole premise is deeply troubling and horrible and never gets resolved in a meaningful way.  We're asked to laugh and go along with some rough stuff here. It's a violent case of Stockholm syndrome as a romantic comedy.  An…

trmbr

this was... strange. I liked some aspects, however I did some reading and learned the director made the film to be drastically different from the play it was based on, which explains a lot. Marilyn's performance is wonderful and seems so lived in but I really hate how her…

Bethany

I don't think I've ever been more irritated by a man in my life and I don't think I've ever felt so bad for a woman more in my life 😭😭 I just want to watch a Marylin movie were she gets treated nicely 😭 but performance wise, she was great at least.

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