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Penned by Arthur Miller, this contemporary Western centers on the recently divorced Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) and her relationship with an aging former cowboy, Gay (Clark Gable), who now survives by rounding up wild mustangs to sell them to a slaughterhouse. Considered a commercial failure at the time of its original release, the film has since been regarded as a classic by critics and audiences, perhaps notably because it was the final completed film of both Gable and Monroe, and a fitting bookend to Monroe’s career—she credited Huston for her first big break in his The Asphalt Jungle (1950).
Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
1961 | 125 min | USA | Black-and-White | English | Not Rated | 4K DCP
DIRECTED BY: John Huston
PRODUCED BY: Frank E. Taylor
WRITTEN BY: Arthur Miller
WITH: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter