What is The Misfits/Wild River about?

Double Feature: THE MISFITS, 1961, Park Circus/MGM, 124 min. Dir. John Huston. Elegiac drama of the vanishing American West, with Clark Gable as an aging cowboy who falls hard for divorceé Marilyn Monroe while trying to round up a herd of wild mustangs with the help of former rodeo star Montgomery Clift. Scripted by Arthur Miller, THE MISFITS was the last completed film for both Gable and Monroe. WILD RIVER, 1960, 20th Century Fox, 110 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. Montgomery Clift plays Chuck Glover, a young man sent to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. Racial tension emerges when it is suggested that black laborers do the construction, and complications build when Chuck becomes involved with a local widow.

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What is The Misfits/Wild River about?: Double Feature: THE MISFITS, 1961, Park Circus/MGM, 124 min. Dir. John Huston. Elegiac drama of the vanishing American West, with Clark Gable as an aging cowboy who falls hard for divorceé Marilyn Monroe while trying to round up a herd of wild mustangs with the help of former rodeo star Montgomery Clift. Scripted by Arthur Miller, THE MISFITS was the last completed film for both Gable and Monroe.

WILD RIVER, 1960, 20th Century Fox, 110 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. Montgomery Clift plays Chuck Glover, a young man sent to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. Racial tension emerges when it is suggested that black laborers do the construction, and complications build when Chuck becomes involved with a local widow.