Misfits Country - Softcover

Arthur Winfield Knight

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974530913 ISBN 13: 9780974530918

Publisher: Tres Picos Pr, 2008

Synopsis

In the summer of 1960 a legendary director took a cast of movie icons into the Nevada desert to make a movie from a screenplay by a famed playwright. The Misfits was one of the most anticipated films of the 20th century, but difficult shooting locations, an unstable leading lady, an aging leading man, a crumbling marriage, and an undisciplined director all conspired to make behind-the-scene events as dramatic as the movie itself.

About this title

From the Publisher:

With MISFITS COUNTRY the author gives the reader a fictional look behind the scenes of the making of the movie THE MISFITS. The real life movie stared Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable in their final on screen performances. The troubled Montgomery Clift also stared in the movie that was directed by the iconic John Huston with a screenplay by Arthur Miller who was at the time married to Marilyn Monroe.

With MISFITS COUNTRY the author takes the reader inside the heads of these larger than life personalities and their strained relationships, as they spend their days in the blistering Nevada desert trying to make a movie and their nights under the neon lights of Reno. The reader is taken back to the waning days of Hollywood's golden era and to time when Reno really was "The Biggest Little City in the World!"

About the Author:

Arthur Winfield Knight, of Yerington, NV has written film criticism for numerous newspapers and magazines for the past 15 years, and he is the author of the novel BLUE SKIES FALLING. He resides in Reno, NV.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tres Picos Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0974530913
• ISBN 13: 9780974530918
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 217