BUS STOP
(20th Century-Fox) G. Cert, ARILYN MONROE'S first film since The Seven Year Itch is an agreeable romantic comedy about a cowboy (Don Murray) who goes off to the rodeo determined to get him an angel and comes back with-guess who? I wish I had more space for it here. Though Marilyn’s no angel, as she confesses in the end, the cowboy is so darned inconsiderate when he decides to rope and tether her that, father-in-
law-like, I didn’t think I would ever accept him, but I came round. For a film directed by Joshua Logan from a George Axelrod script out of a William Inge play, Bus Stop should be better, but at its best it’s still very enjoyable. Aga‘n playing within the limits of her newly-discovered comedy talent (any burlesque is now strictly intentional), Miss Monroe is entertaining to watch and to listen to, and even at times, in. her puzziement about her love affairs, for instance, a little touching — for this piece is not without its overtones of pathos.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 899, 26 October 1956, Page 18
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173BUS STOP New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 899, 26 October 1956, Page 18
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