3.4
“Give this boy enough rope and he'll land Marilyn Monroe!”
Bus Stop (1956)
August 31, 19561h 35mEN
6.1
234 votes
Overview
Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
Director
Joshua LoganWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$220K
Revenue
$7.3M
Production Companies
Marilyn Monroe Productions20th Century Fox
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talisencrw
8.0In her prime, which because of her death at any early age was all of her cinematic life, Monroe was a gorgeous force of nature very much underappreciated in her thespianism. Once I adjusted to Logan's directional style and to the rodeo and fish-out-of-water concepts, I really laid back and enjoyed this. Though it doesn't feature Marilyn's best singing--she portrays a bad singer, at least at the start--it does have some of her best acting, as she finds out she's accepted for who she really is. Wish that had happened to her in real life. Don't get me wrong: it's not by any stretch of the imagina…
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