Released
Bus Stop
August 31 1956 (about 68 years ago)Rating
Based on
220 reviews
Give this boy enough rope and he'll land Marilyn Monroe!
- Director: Joshua Logan
- Writer: George Axelrod
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Runtime: 1 h 36 m
- Budget: $220,000
- Box office: $7,270,000
- Country: United States of America
- Companies: Marilyn Monroe Productions, 20th Century Fox
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.