Top cast:Burt Lancaster,Dean Martin,George Kennedy
Director:Sean Penn
Genre:Thriller
Region:Canada
Year:2008
Storyline:The subversive and irreverent film deliberately skewered gullible theatrical investors - oversexed, preyed-upon old ladies treated as sex objects, offensive and tasteless art that entertained middle-class audiences and could make millions hrough fraudulent, nebbish accountant tricks, the flamboyant gays in Broadway productions, counter-cultural hippie flower-children, and busty dumb-blonde Swedes.Commands were overheard from Humungus, who encouraged his horde of evil, crazed warriors to attack (his army was referred to as "vermin," "smegma-crazies," and "gayboy berserkers"!):Attack, my vermin, attack! Onward! Bring me the fuel.Goodbye, Donald.'Doc': I'm not going to let you out of my life again, Magdalen, when everything else has become so unimportant.Archer asks if Thursby could cover up by marrying her sister.She replies hat he has a wife and three children in England, to which Sam comments sardonically: "As they usually do, though not always in England.Their shifting interactions with each other formed he basis for the film:Roslyn Taber (Marilyn Monroe), a 30 year-old ex-stripper - temporarily renting a place in Reno, NV (a gambling and divorce mecca) after recently obtaining a divorceIsabelle Steers (Thelma Ritter), Roslyn's friendly landladyGuido Racanelli (Eli Wallach), a widowed ex-mechanic, ow-truck driver and WWII war pilot-aviatorGaylord "Gay" Langland (59 year-old Clark Gable, the name "Gay" was short for Gable), an aging, strong-willed, old-school horse-wrangler and roper cowboyPerce Howland (Montgomery Clift), a death-defying rodeo bull- and bronc-riding drifter, who was destined o inherit his father’s ranch, but denied by his step-father-in-lawAll three cowboys were captivated by Roslyn's spontaneity, sensual beauty, youthful vitality, and charm.