1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 31 August 1956 | Color, WS
Director: Joshua Logan
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049038/
Everyone is well-cast, and the performances are terrific. Amazing that I can find this fascinating given the brutish nature of DM, and MM's transformation at the end. The feminist in me accepts the brute as being not specific to women, and that gets confirmed when he uses the same force to pull his unwilling buddy into something.
MM's face is amazingly expressive. During one of the kisses with DM (perhaps the first), we can't see half her face, but her eyebrows alone speak volumes. Near the end of the film, when DM removes his sheepskin-lined coat, and puts it on her, the sensuous pleasures of the warmth of that coat are played to the hilt by MM's face and body language.
Not a musical, just wanted to see it.
Fox, dir. Logan; 8
