Misfits

By the time John Huston brought Arthur Miller’s script to the screen, it had acquired a confessional quality from the presence of its three legendary performers: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift. Gable (who died of a heart attack shortly after the filming ended) gives a strained performance as an aging cowboy who now works capturing mustangs to sell for dog food; Monroe is at her most flamboyant and soul-searching as the woman Gable loves. As an amiable itinerant cowboy, Clift shows a penchant for broad comedy, and Huston indulges his sweetness and amiability. The film’s peculiarly affecting nature — disproportionate to the quality of the writing, directing, or acting — derives not just from the real-life unhappy endings of the actors (which form a veil through which we now watch it) but from the fascinating, almost creepy way Miller and Huston feed bits of information about them into the characters. With Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter.

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