The Misfits

A sexy divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.

• Director: John Huston
• Genre:Comedy / Drama / Romance / Western
• Runtime:125 minutes

Cast

Clark Gable : Gay Langland
Marilyn Monroe : Roslyn Taber
Montgomery Clift: Perce Howland
Thelma Ritter : Isabelle Steers
Eli Wallach : Guido

The Misfits takes place in Reno, and depicts the chance meeting and friendship of a depressed divorcée, Roslyn Taber (Monroe), and Gay Langland (Gable), an aging ex-cowboy prone to gambling, who survives by rounding up and catching mustangs. These had once been sold as horses for children, but now the only market is selling them to slaughterhouses for the manufacture of dog food. Wallach plays Guido, Langland’s pilot partner, and Clift plays Perce Howland, a drifter rodeo rider. The rodeo scenes were filmed in Dayton, Nevada, northeast of Carson City. The climax of the film takes place during wrangling scenes on a dry Nevada lakebed east of Dayton, near Stagecoach. The lakebed today is known as “Misfit Flat.” Read more