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Aug 12, 2016MICHAEL TAGGART MALONEY rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
THE CRUCIBLE or DEATH OF A SALESMAN usually come to mind when thinking about the great works of Arthur Miller. But I would include the screenplay for THE MISFITS. It presents all the big existential issues. Love and death. Freedom and bondage. What I like most about it, and what is particularly apposite in our day and age when working for a living has become so precarious, is that the male characters, as portrayed by Clark Gable, Eli Wallach and Montgomery Clift, consider the ultimate loser to be someone who works for wages. This film, directed by the great John Huston, is mostly known for the fact that it was the last for both Gable and Monroe. But Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter steal the show.