The Misfits (PG)

John Huston, USA 1961, 125mins

John Huston's elegiac anti-western was Marilyn Monroe's final completed film. Written by Arthur Miller, it's a touching and off-beat drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, co-starring Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider, both with bittersweet memories of a west that's no longer wild. Clearly evident is Monroe's skill as a dramatic performer, alongside what many agree is Clark Gable's finest (and last) performance too.