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...unfortunately, are terrible. It is Playwright Arthur Miller's first picture and the late Clark Gable's last. It is a routine gland opera, an honest but clumsy western, a pseudosociological study of the American cowboy in the last, disgusting stages of obsolescence, a raucous ode to Reno and the horrors of divorce, a ponderous disquisition on man's inhumanity to man, woman and various other animals, an obtuse attempt to write sophisticated comedy, a woolly lament for the loss of innocence in American life and, above all, a glum, long (2 hr. 5 min.), fatuously embarrassing...
Roslyn, the film's heroine, is admittedly Marilyn. Gable's Gay, the aging cowboy, obviously speaks for Miller. The two meet in Reno, where she has spent six weeks getting a divorce and he has spent 30 years getting divorcees. He takes her to an isolated cabin, listens to interminable hard-luck stories out of Marilyn's childhood, falls improbably in love, hauls her off to a rodeo with two of his buddies (Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach). She is terrified by the violence she sees there; he is bewildered by her inability to accept death...
...patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems. Monasticism, shielding a candle through the Dark Ages, meets the blaze of the Enlightenment. The Inquisition meets the Supreme Court, the apostolic succession meets the clapboard Congregationalist Church, the Sacred Roman Rota meets Reno...
...Nevada's former Senator George W. ("Molly'') Malone, of the dinosaur wing of the G.O.P., failed in a political comeback. Still Nevada's lone Congressman: Democrat Walter Baring of Reno...
...teenager jotted down a conventional description of "Mr. Smith" returning "from a successful business trip" and "thinking about his wonderful family and how glad he will be to see them again." To a creative classmate, the situation looked very different. "This man," he wrote, "is flying back from Reno where he has just won a divorce from his wife. He couldn't stand to live with her any more because she wore so much cold cream on her face at night that her head would skid across the pillow and hit him in the head. He is now contemplating...