Double Feature: THE MISFITS, WILD RIVER April 6, 2013

Saturday, April 6 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: THE MISFITS, 1961, Park Circus/MGM, 124 min. Dir. John Huston. Aching, elegiac drama of the vanishing American West, with Clark Gable (in his final film) as an aging cowboy who falls hard for divorceé Roslyn (Marilyn Monroe) while trying to round up a herd of wild mustangs with the help of former rodeo star Montgomery Clift. Beautifully scripted by Monroe’s former husband Arthur Miller, THE MISFITS was the last completed film in her all-too-brief career. {35mm}
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EckvMsLsfBM
WILD RIVER, 1960, 20th Century Fox, 110 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. Always-excellent Montgomery Clift plays Chuck Glover, a young man sent to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. Deep-seated racial tension emerges when it is suggested that black laborers work on the construction of the dam, and complications only build when Chuck becomes romantically entangled with a local widow. "Kazan’s finest and deepest film!" – Dave Kehr {DCP}

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