The Misfits
BFI SouthbankBelvedere Road, South Bank, London
Today · 12:10
About this event
Book tickets for two or more of our Rare Marilyn films in the same transaction to receive a discount! The final completed film of stars Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, an elegy for the death of the Old West from writer Arthur Miller and director John Huston, is re-released in cinemas to mark the centenary of Monroe's birth. Gable stars as Gay Langland, an ageing hand travelling 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 (Monroe), a high-minded ex-stripper who has just divorced her husband in Reno, is appalled by the plan. Infused with the promises of what could have been if she had been given more time to explore her skills as a dramatic performer, Marilyn Monroe delivers one of her very best performances.
