Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7268 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-11-26
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Black & White, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Danish, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
• Dubbed in: French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 120 minutes

Special Features
1.78 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English\German
English
Region 2
Mono English French German Italian Spanish
Mono
Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Menu Screens
Chapter Selections
Danish\Dutch\English\French\Italian\Norwegian\Spanish\Swedish

Synopsis
In John Huston's drama, sophisticated but emotionally crippled Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe, giving what many believe to be her strongest performance) has come to Nevada to gain a quick and easy divorce. When her landlady introduces her to aging, broken cowboy Gay Langland (Clark Gable), she finally finds herself with a worthy partner. Meanwhile, Gay and his fellow horsemen Guido and Perce (Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift, respectively) scheme to capture a herd of wild horses. Though megawatt star power and a brilliant script by Arthur Miller failed to turn THE MISFITS into box office success (probably due a legendarily troubled shoot), time and critical reputation treated it very kindly. It was the final film for icons Gable and Monroe.

Customer Reviews

True Classic
Those that don't fit in must be destroyed, might be the moral of this tale, be they wild horses hunted to extinction or old cowboys left over from a simpler, certainly brutal, but perhaps more honest time. The great American adventure is over, the land is won and all must give up their freedom to become wage slaves.

Dont believe the hype

This is an almost forgotten "classic" directed by John Houston and starring many famous actors. The script is clunky and the plot is a mess.
Oh, how I wanted to love this movie. It was the last movie for both Gable and Monroe, it was set in the beautiful southwest (Reno), and it was to be a movie about free-spirits finding each other.
The movie started out well, with a great opening scene with Thelma Ritter. Unfortunately, that is the last high point of the movie (apart from the horse chase scene). In addition to accepting the unbelievable romance between sixty year old Gable and 35-year-old Marilyn, we were supposed to feel something for these characters. Not an easy thing to ask of the viewer. Wallach, Clift and Gable played dispicable, drunken losers, and Marilyn was a woman bereft of any capability to recognize it. These were all people that I wouldn't even bother with if I met them on the street. Why am I supposed to care about them in this "classic" movie?
So sad that Gable and Monroe (she spends the movie in a daze) went out on this note. The only value in seeing this movie is purely historical.

Time for a Reality Check!!!
Why are the other reviews of this film so glowing? Perhaps because The Misfits is a lesser-known film made by a great director, featuring a stellar cast (two of whom died shortly afterwards) and written by Arthur Miller. People who see the film convince themselves it's great so they can pretend that they have discovered a forgotten classic and impress their friends with their superior knowledge of film. In the real world this is a plodding film about a group of disparate misfits (Gable, Monroe, Clift, Wallach) who end up hunting Mustang horses (who, like their human counterparts, are also misfits). Very profound.

As for the individuals involved: Miller's dialogue excels in places but, in terms of plot, the script is a mess. Huston's direction is good, particularly in the scenes where the horses are chased down and captured. Gable and Wallach both give impressive performances. Clift seems to float through the film in a drunken stupor, which actually fits his character. The real problem here is Monroe. Her performance is simply annoying. She is not sensitive or spiritual but spaced out; apart from one or two moments of clarity she spends the movie in a daze.

The Misfits is not a terrible movie but it is an unremarkable one that is forgotten before you switch off the TV. Many other reviewers have awarded it 4 or even 5 stars (the top rating). I wonder if these people have seen [...] Those films may not be obscure but they are deserving of all the plaudits they receive. The Misfits is not.