John Huston’s elegiac anti-western The Misfits, Marilyn Monroe’s final film, will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 5 June to mark the centenary of Monroe’s birth.
Written by Arthur Miller, The Misfits is 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.
Infused with the promises of what could have been if she had been given more time to explore her skills as a dramatic performer, Marilyn Monroe delivers one of her very best performances.
Credits
USA 1961
125 min
Certificate PG
Dir John Huston
With Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift
Screenings
1 June previews
Releases screenings
June
5 June
BFI Southbank, London
Garden Cinema, London
ICA, London
Lumiere Romford
Cine Lumiere
Glasgow Film Theatre
IFI Dublin
6 June
Northampton Filmhouse
14 June
Olympic Studios, Barnes
15 June
Hebden Bridge Picture House
22 June
Triskel Arts Centre
July
11 July
Riverside Studios, London
27 July
Welwyn Garden City Cinema
29 July
BEAM Hertford