The Misfits // 1961 American western film trailer

The Misfits // 1961 American western film trailer

The Misfits is a 1961 American western film written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift.

The supporting cast features Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach and Kevin McCarthy.

Adapted by Miller from his own short story of the same name published in Esquire in October 1957,[3] The Misfits was the last completed film for both Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe.

For Gable, the film was posthumously released, while Monroe died in 1962.

The plot centers on a newly divorced woman (Monroe) and her time in Reno and Northern Nevada, spent with her friendly landlady Isabelle Steers (Thelma Ritter), an old-school cowboy (Gable), the cowboy's tow truck-driving and plane-flying friend (Wallach) and their rodeo-riding, bronc-busting friend (Clift) in Dayton, Nevada, and in the western Nevada desert in 1960.