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| ACTORS: | Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Joshua Logan |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 31 August, 1956 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Twentieth Century Fox Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 024543014485 |
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Customer Reviews of Bus Stop
Beautiful Love-Story -- One of Marilyn's Best! Don Murray (in his film debut) plays a rodeo star who falls head over heels in love with saloon entertainer Marilyn Monroe. You'll spend much of the movie rooting for poor Monroe to escape from the persistant Murray, who insists the two will be married.
Eventually the wild cowboy is taught a few lessons in politeness, which endears him to his prospective bride, who is still shaking from his rough manners. When Monroe tells Murray that she is "not the innocent girl he thought she was", Murray figures that between them they have just the right amount of experience. Of course, the pair ride off into the desert sunset together.
The title song by The Four Lads is a nice finishing touch to a very pleasant film. Fans of the star are going to like this picture!****
Marilyn in a superb performance
BUS STOP proved beyond a doubt that Marilyn Monroe could indeed act. For those who missed her 1952 performance in DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK, the surprise was very pleasant indeed.
BUS STOP was adapted from William Inge's successful long-running Broadway play, and was bought by Fox with Marilyn in mind. She plays the role of the ambitious cabaret singer Cherie, who longs to go to Hollywood, where, she assures her girlfriend, "you get discovered, you get tested, with options and everything! And you get treated with a little respect, too!".
Enter naive cowboy Beauregard (Don Murray in his screen debut) , who falls in love with her during her performance of "That Old Black Magic" (which must surely count as one of Monroe's most beguiling screen moments). Uneducated hick that he is, he decides to marry her, come hell or high water.
The film has been fully restored, using the original YCM masters to replace the parts of the film that were too far-gone to be rescued. A pristine picture with a gorgeous soundtrack.
The DVD includes restoration comparisons, gallery and trailers. Available seperately or as part of the Marilyn Monroe Diamond Collection.
Man, this stinks.
I love old movies and I love Marilyn. But this just stinks. There's none of Marilyn's glamour or gold-digging charm. She's shrill and whiny in a terrible hick accent. "Beau" is obnoxious and completely over-the-top.
The premise of the movie is Beau, a young cowboy, going to a rodeo. He's an innocent, never off his ranch in Montana. He decides he's going to find himself an angel to take back home. So he meets "Cherie" in a saloon. He manhandles her, browbeats her, and eventually kidnaps her. His screaming and fighting make a person think that if he managed to force her to marry him (after abducting her with a lasso as she desperately tries to flee), he'd probably rape her on the wedding night. It's just that creepy.
So they end up stuck at a bus station together due to bad weather. FINALLY someone steps in when they see Beau manhandling Cherie, and says he can't kidnap this woman. Beau objects and ends up getting his butt whipped.
Which somehow makes Cherie love him and they ride off to Montana together.
It's really objectionable. Offensive, really. I can't say one single good thing about the entire movie. It wasn't believable, enjoyable, amusing, or entertaining. I'm really sorry I watched it.