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Don Murray In Person! Don Murray was nominated for an Academy Award for his very first film, BUS STOP, and he only got better from that point forward. With turns in films by Otto Preminger, Fred Zinnemann and Francis Ford Coppola, as well as countless appearances on television, Murray has created dozens of indelible performances.

Double Feature: HOODLUM PRIEST, 1961, MGM Repertory, 101 min. Don Murray plays Father Charles Dismas Clark, a man of the cloth who works with juvenile delinquents, in this powerful film based on a true story. Keir Dullea plays one of the teens in an early role.
Discussion between films with actor Don Murray.

BUS STOP, 1956, 20th Century Fox, 96 min. Dir. Joshua Logan. Marilyn Monroe stunned critics and fans alike with her heartbreakingly tender performance as a truck-stop singer who falls in love with naïve young cowpoke Don Murray, in this beautiful, bittersweet drama based on the William Inge play. With Betty Field, Arthur O’Connell.

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Added by AmericanCinematheque on June 19, 2010