1961 · drama · western
The Misfits
Directed by John Huston2h 4m1961
While filing for a divorce, beautiful ex-stripper Roslyn Taber ends up meeting aging cowboy-turned-gambler Gay Langland and former World War II aviator Guido Racanelli. The two men instantly become infatuated with Roslyn and, on a whim, the three decide to move into Guido's half-finished desert home together. When grizzled ex-rodeo rider Perce Howland arrives, the unlikely foursome strike up a business capturing wild horses.
Our read: The Misfits (1961) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · western entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / western, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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