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| Bus Stop | 
 enlarge | Director: Joshua Logan
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  53 reviews
Sales Rank: 6120
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 105
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.4
MPN: D2001448D
UPC: 024543014485
EAN: 0024543014485
ASIN: B000059GEJ
Theatrical Release Date: August 31, 1956
Release Date: May 14, 2002
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Monroe at her Best April 11, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
Enjoyable film with Monroe at her acting best. I prefer her in more glamorous roles, but appreciate her venture into other areas.
 strictly for fans of that buxom blonde March 29, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
william inge is not served well in this adaptation of his stage hit which comes off today as more a situation comedy than a serious work. don murray is just plain silly as the callow cowboy, but of course the only reason anybody would watch this movie nowadays is the presence of marilyn monroe, who shines in what is essentially a supporting role. not bad, just not very good.
 BUS STOP March 8, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
THIS WAS A GIFT PURCHASE FOR MY DAUGHTER AND SHE ABSOLUTLEY LOVED IT.
A comedy-drama very well done! December 22, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Alternately puzzled, lost, desperate, lonely, confused and unexpectedly radiant with happiness, Marilyn Monroe, with a mixture of humor and pain scores her greatest triumph in Joshua Logan's "Bus Stop" creating a complete and deeply touching character...
Singing 'That Old Black Magic' to a noisy crowd of cowpokes who couldn't care less about her efforts to entertain them, Cherie is pleased to discover a fan in Bo, a young and innocent cowboy who has come to make his fortune at the Rodeo and finds himself an Angel to take back to his Montana ranch...The kiss she gives him in appreciation, determines him then and there to be his beloved wife...
Logan gives Don Murray his first and best-remembered screen role, as the gauche simple-thinking cowboy who romances the glamorous 'chantoose'... Marilyn succeeds in making him say "please" which is the point of the whole thing... Murray was Oscar-nominated for his performance...
There are other fine performances in the movie: Arthur O'Connell, delightful as the cowboy's pal who big-brothers him with loving patience; Eileen Heckart amusing as the old time friend; Betty Field, strong enough as the bus stop owner; Robert Bray, firm as the driver of the bus and Hope Lange, so auspicious in her screen debut whom Cherie reveals details of her past...
With a modern Western background and rodeo atmosphere, and with panoramic long shot and overwhelming close-ups in color and CinemaScope, "Bus Stop" is a comedy-drama very well done, and a modest entertainment in familiar American vein...
 Incredibly bad December 21, 2006
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I watched this yesterday and I'm still in shock. Monroe began to ripen as a dramatic actress just mere days (it seems) before she died. For sheer hilarity and dramatic weight, she never surpassed her role in "Some like it hot". For dramatic power she was very impressive and powerful in "The Misfits". This film, earlier in her career has been hailed as an early dramatic performace.
I am not familiar with the play from whence this film came from. I just watched it and took it for what it appeared. I found Don Murray's characterization of the cowboy to be a negative distraction, largely because instead of a real person he came across as a living comic-book character. There was not a moment when he was on the screen except for his quiet moments of remorse at the end, when he was not sounding like a lunatic. Other commentators have noted that this over the top performance was supposed to be this way, deliberatly to be funny. Well, in my time, at the end of 2006, this type of behaviour looks stupid, ridiculous and unbelievable. Further, Murray spends almost every second in the film shouting at the top of his lungs as if this is the way most cowboys fresh off the farm act when hitting the big city for the first time. Ahhhhh, no: I don't think so. The director (Logan) must have encouraged him to act this way and for me it makes him look like an imbecile. Honestly, his acting just made me so uncomfortable from the beginning to the end I wish I could have stopped the film.
Then we have Monroe. She looked as she always does, beautiful. But, I did notice that she kept changing the inflection of her voice, as if not quite yet sure of how to morph from a blonde-bombshell-dimwit into a real person, a dramatic presence. She just comes in and out of the "place" and it strikes me now as quite a fascinating moment in her career, almost at the cusp of breaking out into better acting. Her attempts at an accent come and go and if we were not so distracted by what she looked like we'd take closer note of it. Her skin looked so white next to the cowboy that she almost looked sickly. The best moments were when she was staring into a mirror (very well set up shot) and the doubts and fears that crossed her face felt every bit as real as one could imagine.
All in all I was shocked at how bad the film looked, given the age in which we live. The cartoonish characterization that Murray gives just looks ridiculous and hence hard to relate to. I just could not imagine any cowboy acting like a wild baboon on steroids. Sorry, but this just made me cringe. You compare a great dramatic effort like "The Misfits" and the contrast makes everything clear. If Joshua Logan wanted to make a drama here then he destroyed it with the creation of a character right out of the comic "Bizarro". This film just does not age well.
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