They Were Dying, Part 1 of 7

(In the summer of 1960, filming began on "The Misfits". Shot on location in the Nevada desert, the picture was enveloped in a weird atmosphere of doom from start to finish. For the three stars - Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift - it would be the last film they ever completed.) Desert Hearts What do you think of this? A motion picture, wrought in a wilderness, about a woman loved by Gay, Guido, Arthur, Perce, a woman who draws men as thoughtlessly as breathing, but whose beauty is her curse. And what of three wranglers, in the drum of the washing machine, who live for chasing mustangs - the dwindling mustangs, whose fate is to be slaughtered as food for dogs, and whose destruction draws nearer each time they are chased? Come with me to Reno, the town with no water, the zone of single strangers. Meet five doomed characters, moving through a slow gavotte one deadly summer, dancing on the spot finding out anew what they've really always known: how to have and have not.