Awesome Movie

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Even with one of the most beautiful women of all time, this movie is almost unwatchable because of the awful accents.

I don't understand why some reviewers criticize Don Murray's(Bo) performance as idiotic. That's what the director wanted! This is basically a screwball romantic comedy. If a young Cary Grant or contemporary Jerry Lewis had been there instead of Murray, I think this would have been more easily recognized for what it is. Today, no doubt, Bo would be drugged to calmness, as a clear cut case of ADHD. True, in the age of compulsory group schooling, Bo's unfamiliarity with girls suggests another kind of sexual orientation, or a residence so far from a school that it wasn't practical for him to go to a school. Think of Bo as Li'l Abner and Cherie as Daisy Mae, except that Li'l Abner is the one doing the chasing. If this isn't your brand of humor, I guess you can complain, but don't fault Murray!Marilyn(Cherie, not Cherry, as Bo prefers), as Bo's quarry, is a deglamorized, beat up, cheaply costumed, Ozark hillbilly floozy, who happens to be singing as part of her entertainment act in a Phoenix dive. Her extreme hillbilly twang and terrible rendition of "That Old Black Magic" speaks against her ambition to become a Hollywood star. She doesn't like her present job, being pawed and ogled at and abused by her manager. Thus, the sudden offering to become the wife of a Montana ranch owner offers an alternative from disappointment in Hollywood and her present situation. I'm sure it wasn't every desirable man who was willing to take this ignorant floozy for a wife. Bo seemed not to care about her past. He seemed unusually honest about his feelings. If he was as honest in his portrayal of his situation in Montana, he might make a good husband, if on the hyperexcitable side. But Cherie was taking a chance that he might be a con man. As a husband, he may be excessively controlling, possessive and jealous, thus potentially abusive. But, maybe not so bad. Remember, he's only visiting Phoenix, so has minimal time to land Cherie. Thus, he has to be rather forward to impress her quickly. At least, his spectacular rodeo performance proved he was very good in handling horses and cattle. His extreme persistence in his devotion to her, accompanied by embarrassing public displays, at first turned off Cherie. But, in the end, her resistance melting away. I hope she didn't regret it. Although not real obvious, I figured Virgil didn't go back to Montana with them because he had a crush on Grace and because he figured Cherie was now Bo's new partner. No clue what Virgil might do for a living around Grace's Diner.Reportedly, Marilyn was hell to work with during shooting: supersensitive, complaining, crying, forgetting her lines. Murray was not impressed with her basic egocentric personality.A favorite antic of Bo's: when he lassos Cherie, who's about to get on the bus for LA(I assume), to make her get on the bus for Montana."The Bus Stop Song" was composed for this film. It was sung during the credits and also early on the bus, led by guitar- playing Arthur O'Connell(Bo's friend(Virgil).Available as part of the Marilyn Premier DVD Collection.

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 under-appreciated 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.

This isn't exactly a feminist movie! It's much more misogynist. The only thing that the film is worth is Marilyn Monroe. At the time, she was going to learn acting from Lee Strasberg at the famous Actor's Studio. So, her performance here is certainly better and more nuanced than it had been.The cinematography is fine, and director Joshua Logan keeps things moving along. But, at the same time, Logan allows the bracing level of sexism to go on in the movie. Logan was a well-regarded director, and certainly had the pull to change things if he had wished.But, he doesn't. Don Murray, who went on to be a perfectly decent actor, plays Beau with a ham-fisted, way over-the-top quality that is embarrassing, to say the least. His borderline-violent way of going after Monroe's Chérie is difficult to watch. At least Chérie holds off against him for a while, before giving into him at the end.You wonder why women would put up with this. This movie was just on TCM's "The Essentials," with Robert Osborne and, inexplicably, Drew Barrymore. I say "inexplicably" because there are a great many very knowledgeable women in the film business. Barrymore is most likely on there because TCM is endlessly fascinated by the children of famous Hollywood families, like the Barrymore's, Mankiewicz's, Fonda's, etc. Or, she's there because Osborne has a crush on her, like he did Rose McGowan.So, Barrymore didn't have a problem at all with Murray's Beau. She found him attractive, passionate and erotic! There are women who obviously get off on men who treat them like garbage. I think it's about women with a lot of spare estrogen who want men with a lot of spare testosterone. So, Barrymore obviously is one of those women.But, you could tell how Osborne was very much put off with Beau's endless bullying of Chérie. And, the fact that the movie makes it seem to pay off for Beau at the end makes it even more reprehensible.*** (3 Out of 10 Stars)