MP3 of the Day

On this day in 1961, the film The Misfits was released. The movie had all the right ingredients to become a truly great western: director - John Huston, screenwriter - Arthur Miller and it stared Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift. Yet when it opened, the reviews were mixed, and the public largely ignored it. Although, in the years to come, The Misfits would find a more appreciative audience, in part because the film was the swan song for Gable and Monroe, who both died shortly after it was released. The film was a western that was in many ways ahead of its time. It was a dark movie that America found increasingly relevant. It's message of alienation and a longing for escape to the pre-modern world of the old west found a wider audience during the turbulent 1960s and '70s. Today we have the song Heroes And Villains by THE GALACTIC HEROES.