Bus Stop (1956)

Directed by Joshua Logan. With Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field. A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.

Bus Stop, also known as The Wrong Kind of Girl, is a 1956 film directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'C...

Bus Stop is a 1956 American romantic comedy film directed by Joshua Logan for 20th Century Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray and Hope Lange.

Though it seems dated now, this film adaptation of William Inge's romantic comedy-drama was considered pretty hot stuff in its day, which was 1956. Directed by Joshua Logan from George Axelrod's script of Inge's Broadway hit, the film stars Marilyn Monroe as the kind of woman who can't understand why she always brings out the worst in men. A singer who has attracted the attention of a young rodeo rider (Don Murray) whom she meets on a bus, she finds herself trapped at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere during a blizzard. The young cowboy, whose intentions are honorable, can't control his temper and can't understand why this experienced woman won't take him seriously--and why she rejects him when he begins acting jealous and possessive. Love takes its lumps but comes out slugging in the end, with Marilyn at her vulnerable, jaded best. --Marshall Fine

Overview of Bus Stop, 1956, directed by Joshua Logan, with Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, at Turner Classic Movies

I honestly don't know how to start this review because I'm still confused on how to take Bus Stop.  Is it a comedy?  If so it's pretty weak.  Is it a drama?  If so, it's atrocious.  The movie is just...weird.  The acting ranges from really great to downright awful and holds one of the most…

The Three Movie Buffs review Bus Stop (1956) Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell

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.

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