Product Details

• Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 8, 2000
• ASIN: 0767016130
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,036 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In the 1950s, Montgomery Clift brought a new vitality and depth to American movies. He was a talented actor, and was devastatingly handsome. He inspired both Marlon Brando and James Dean, who aped his naturalistic acting style. The characters Monty played on screen were lost, confused souls - a new, postwar image of the American male. Off-screen, he was a cypher - his addiction to pills and alcohol and his complicated sexual identity have been widely publicized. Previous books and documentaries have simplified Clift's psychological problems as stemming from his supposedly repressed homosexuality. He starred in such films as RED RIVER, A PLACE IN THE SUN, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, and THE MISFITS. He received four Academy Award Nominations, but never won. A 1956 car accident, caused not by alcohol but by long hours on the film RAINTREE COUNTY, damaged his facial muscles. This both limited his range of expression and hurt his self-esteem. After this, Clift tended to take unglamorous roles which worsened his bad public image. A lawsuit with Universal Pictures and his growing addictions forced him into a four-year retirement in 1962. Although he was preparing for a comeback in the mid 60s, he suffered a sudden, fatal heart attack in 1966.