Bus Stop

1956 · 1h35 · Film

Directed by Joshua Logan

Starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, Hope Lange, Hans Conried, Max Showalter, Linda Brace

Ideal when you feel… Romantic Happy Angry

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.

Original language

English

Screenplay

George Axelrod

Music

Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman

Cinematography

Milton Krasner

Cast

Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, Hope Lange, Hans Conried, Max Showalter, Linda Brace, Mary Carroll, J.M. Dunlap

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