Bus Stop (1956)
1h 36m | PG-13
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 Logan
Studio: Marilyn Monroe Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Video: 720p
Cast
Marilyn Monroe
as Cherie
Don Murray
as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
Arthur O'Connell
as Virgil Blessing
Betty Field
as Grace
Eileen Heckart
as Vera
Robert Bray
as Carl
Reviews
In 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 imagination a great film. Yet neither is it the mediocrity other people tend to say it is.