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The Misfits

Year:

1961

Duration:

124 min | France:120 min (DVD)

Genres:

Drama | Romance | Western

IMDB rate:

7.4

Director:

John Huston

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1961-02-01

Filming Locations: Dayton, Nevada, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Marilyn Monroe

The Misfits

Clark Gable

Gay Langland

Montgomery Clift

Perce Howland

Thelma Ritter

Isabelle Steers

Eli Wallach

Guido

James Barton

Fletcher's Grandfather

Kevin McCarthy

Raymond Taber

Estelle Winwood

Church Lady Collecting Money in Bar

Peggy Barton

Young Bride (uncredited)

Rex Bell

Old Cowboy (uncredited)

Ryall Bowker

Man in Bar (uncredited)

Frank Fanelli Sr.

Gambler at Bar (uncredited)

John Huston

Extra in Blackjack Scene (uncredited)

Bobby LaSalle

Bartender (uncredited)

Philip Mitchell

Charles Steers (uncredited)

Walter Ramage

Old Groom (uncredited)

Ralph Roberts

Ambulance Driver at Rodeo (uncredited)

Dennis Shaw

Fletcher - Young Boy in Bar (uncredited)

J. Lewis Smith

Fresh Cowboy in Bar (uncredited)

Marietta Tree

Susan (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

When the film premiered in February 1961 Marilyn Monroe was being treated at a psychiatric hospital.

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Marilyn Monroe later said she hated both the film and her performance.

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The film was originally released on what would have been Clark Gable's sixtieth birthday. He died before the film was completed at the age of fifty-nine.

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Goofs

When Gay is holding the flashlight for Guido as he works on the plane, the flashlight is clearly off. Yet Gay keeps adjusting it to light the part of the plane engine Guido is working on.

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When Gay is seeing Susan off at the train station she is supposed to be traveling east to St. Louis but the train she boards is heading west.

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When Gable, Monroe, and Clift look at the horses in the distance with the binoculars, all three of them hold the binoculars upside down (but they still work, of course).

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Quotes

Guido: Have you ever been outside Reno, Ms. Taber?

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Gay: I just need to find another way to feel alive, that's all.

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Isabelle Steers: No, you're just a cowboy, darlin'. You fellas won't move unless its rainin' down your neck.

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Faq

Is "The Misfits" based on a book?

The Misfits is based on a screenplay by American playwright Arthur Miller [1915-2005]. The screenplay was based on a short story, "The Misfits," also by Arthur Miller. It is available in a book of Miller's short stories, titled I Don't Need You Anymore (1967).

Were Gay's children actually at the bar with him when Gay got rip-roarin' drunk?

Most viewers like to believe that his children actually came to see him at the bar but were so embarrassed by his behavior that they left.

Do Roz and Gay end up together?

Most viewers like to think they do, especially after the way they were cuddling in Gay's truck on the way home. Not to mention Gay's comment after setting the horses free: "I'll just have to find another way to be free." There seems to be some sort of hopeful reconciliation between Gay and Roslyn at the end. Gay knows that the sensitive Roslyn is revolted by his macho violence, the harshness of outdoor life, and his capacity to be cruel to animals for "practical" reasons (making a living), while Roslyn seems to accept that he needs to be seen as the boss man after he lets the stallion run free after wrestling it. He's now painfully aware that his old cowpoke lifestyle is being rendered obsolete and that it's time to hang up the cowboy hat to try pursuing a different dream.

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