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Bus Stop

1956 · 95 min

A warm, stage-bound character study that shifts from boisterous comedy to tender drama, anchored by a vulnerable, star-making performance.

Tagline
Give this boy enough rope and he'll land Marilyn Monroe!
Overview
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.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • identity
  • coming-of-age
  • isolation
  • redemption
Places
  • small town
  • road trip
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour5
Realism7
Romance7
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama, romance
Directed by
Joshua Logan
Written by
George Axelrod
Starring
Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Robert Bray, Hope Lange, Hans Conried
Music
Alfred Newman, Cyril J. Mockridge
Cinematography
Milton Krasner
Runtime
95 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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