The Misfits

Riverside Studios' "Marilyn in the Movies" season celebrates the one and only Marilyn Monroe on the centenary of the birth of cinema’s most enduring film star! The season includes the centrepiece of the British Film Institute's celebration of Monroe: the BFI rerelease of THE MISFITS (1961), John Huston’s elegiac anti-Western and Monroe’s poignant final film.

Enjoy a 15% discount if you buy two or more tickets to the season in the same order.

Marilyn in the Movies films:

• GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953)
• SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
• THE MISFITS (1961)

THE MISFITS:

Central to the BFI’s centenary celebration of Marilyn Monroe is BFI Distribution’s re-release of The Misfits (1961), Monroe’s poignant final film, returning to cinemas in the UK and Ireland in June. John Huston’s tragic swan song to the western, written by Monroe’s then-husband Arthur Miller, 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, Monroe delivers one of her very best performances, pouring a devastatingly raw vulnerability and a sincere sentimentality into Roslyn, a delicate divorcee who moves out to the Nevada desert, a gathering ground for misfits, burnouts and empty bottles, and who finds herself falling for a similarly lost cowboy.