What is BABY DOLL/THE MISFITS about?

BABY DOLL, 1956, Warner Bros., 114 min. Director Elia Kazan’s controversial film (from Tennessee Williams’ first original screenplay) stars Carroll Baker as a thumb-sucking child bride in the deep South, and Karl Malden as her middle-aged husband. In his film debut, Eli Wallach plays a business rival who takes a strange vengeance in this gothic tale of pride and perversity. THE MISFITS, 1961, Park Circus/MGM, 124 min. Dir. John Huston. Aching, elegiac drama of the vanishing American West, with Clark Gable as an aging cowboy who falls hard for divorcée Marilyn Monroe while trying to round up a herd of wild mustangs with the help of former rodeo star Montgomery Clift. With Eli Wallach.

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What is BABY DOLL/THE MISFITS about?: BABY DOLL, 1956, Warner Bros., 114 min. Director Elia Kazan’s controversial film (from Tennessee Williams’ first original screenplay) stars Carroll Baker as a thumb-sucking child bride in the deep South, and Karl Malden as her middle-aged husband. In his film debut, Eli Wallach plays a business rival who takes a strange vengeance in this gothic tale of pride and perversity. THE MISFITS, 1961, Park Circus/MGM, 124 min. Dir. John Huston. Aching, elegiac drama of the vanishing American West, with Clark Gable as an aging cowboy who falls hard for divorcée Marilyn Monroe while trying to round up a herd of wild mustangs with the help of former rodeo star Montgomery Clift. With Eli Wallach.