Bus Stop (1956)
"Give this boy enough rope and he'll land Marilyn Monroe!"
ThumbScore
👍 77%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 80%
(RT: 80%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Don Murray as Beauregard 'Bo' Decker
Betty Field as Grace
Eileen Heckart as Vera
Robert Bray as Carl
Hans Conried as Life Magazine Photographer
Is Bus Stop good?
Most people think so. 77% audience score, estimated from 256 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 80%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
