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Synopsis

The final film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe is an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an aging hand traveling the byways and working at rodeos with his two comrades, Guido (Eli Wallach) and young Perce Howland (Montgomery Clift). The three men come up with a plan to corral some misfit mustangs and sell them for dog food, but Gay's new girlfriend Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe), a high-minded ex-stripper who has just divorced her husband Ray (Kevin McCarthy) in Reno, is appalled by the plan. Although both Guido and Perce are also in love with Roslyn, she stands by Gay, sure that in the end he will do the right thing, even as he and his pals begin their planned roundup.~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Cast

  • Clark Gable
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Montgomery Clift
  • Thelma Ritter
  • Eli Wallach
  • James Barton
  • Kevin McCarthy
  • Estelle Winwood
  • Peggy Barton
  • Rex Bell

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Metacritic

80

For me, the film is itself a bit of misfit, full of big stagey speeches, contrived moments and some overemphatic performances, but opened out with muscular style by Huston. The faces of Gable, Clift and Monroe together in closeup have a Mount Rushmore look to them.

Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
100

The film moves at a leisurely pace at first, but it accelerates as it moves towards its exciting climax.

Metacritic review by Kate Cameron
Kate Cameron
New York Daily News
100

What a multiple swansong and beautiful accident The Misfits is.

Metacritic review by Tim Robey
Tim Robey
The Telegraph