# The Misfits (1961)

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**Runtime**: 124 min
**Genres**: Western, Drama, Romance
**Directed by**: John Huston
**Written by**: Arthur Miller
**Starring**: Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, James Barton

> *It shouts and sings with life ... explodes with love!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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