The Misfits

Marilyn Monroe’s poignant final film, THE MISFITS, John Huston’s tragic swan song to the Western, was written by Monroe’s then-husband Arthur Miller. In this touching and off-beat drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift co-star as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider, both with bittersweet memories of a west that's no longer wild. 

Infused with the promises of what could have been if she had been given more time to explore her skills as a dramatic performer, Monroe delivers one of her very best performances, pouring a devastatingly raw vulnerability and a sincere sentimentality into Roslyn, a delicate divorcee, reeling from a shotgun divorce in Reno, who moves out to the Nevada desert, a gathering ground for misfits, burnouts and empty bottles, and who finds herself falling for a similarly lost cowboy. 

“What a multiple swansong and beautiful accident THE MISFITS is.” Daily Telegraph