Nevada, the “leave it” state: a gathering ground for misfits, burnouts, empty bottles and spare atom bombs. It’s home to a host of interesting strangers: Roslyn; a beautiful but naive woman, reeling from a shotgun divorce, who has never stepped foot out of Reno, and Guido and Gay; a pair of erstwhile cowboys with a half-finished house in the sticks and bittersweet memories of a west that’s no longer wild.
Scripted by Arthur Miller for then wife Marilyn Monroe whilst their marriage was in free fall, the film, Gable’s and Monroe’s last, is a eulogy for the old west. Beautifully restored.