If you loved The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, try The Misfits
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by John Huston, and they sit in Western territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What The Misfits is
A late-era Hollywood Western that mistakes drifting for depth, this one gathers its characters like strays at a roadside diner. Roslyn, newly divorcing, joins two lonely men in a half-built house in the Nevada heat, and later a wounded rodeo rider, all bonding over a scheme to catch wild mustangs. It’s less about the horses than the heavy silences between them, and how often people mistake emptiness for freedom.

