Country: USA
Year: 1956
Duration: 96'
Bo, a cowboy from Montana, arrives in Phoenix with the older Virgil for the annual rodeo. In a saloon, he meets the singer Chérie and wins her over with his rough-edged innocence, going so far as to literally lasso her when he spots her at a bus stop and drag her back with him to Montana. Stranded by a snowstorm, the two are joined by Virgil, who, appalled by the brutal way his friend treats the girl, decides to teach him a lesson. But Chérie, by now in love, chooses to stay by her man’s side. Adapted from a play by William Inge, the film is an unusual blend of drama and sexy comedy, once again casting Marilyn as the seductive and spirited singer she had already played in River of No Return.
Biography
film director
Joshua Logan
(Texarkana, USA, 1908 – New York, USA, 1988) was an American director, screenwriter, movie producer and playwright. After graduating from Princeton, he won the Pulitzer Prize for drama with the musical South Pacific, which he wrote with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and he directed his first Hollywood movie in the late 1930s. He later returned to directing in the mid-‘50s with the famous movies Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), Sayonara (1957), and, at the end of his career, Paint Your Wagon (1969).
FILMOGRAFIA
I Met My Love Again (Ho ritrovato il mio amore, 1938), Picnic (id., 1955), Bus Stop (Fermata d’autobus, 1956), Sayonara (id., 1957), South Pacific (id., 1958), Tall Story (In punta di piedi, 1960), Fanny (id., 1961), Ensign Pulver (Una nave tutta matta, 1964), Camelot (id., 1967), Paint Your Wagon (La ballata della città senza nome, 1969).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTED BY: Joshua Logan. BASED ON: the play Bus Stop (1955) by William Inge. SCREENPLAY: George Axelrod. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Milton Krasner. EDITED BY: William H. Reynolds. MUSIC: Alfred Newman, Cyril J. Mockridge. CAST: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O’Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart. PRODUCED BY: Buddy Adler for 20th Century Fox. CONTACT: Park Circus www.parkcircus.com
