What's sad is that the people he loved the most, the ones who were there with him for the good times, abandoned him in the end. In their own words they said he had changed, he needed help, so they couldn't be there for him anymore. What a sad and lonely story about a beautiful man. I'm so thankful he had a friend in Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Taylor was not only beautiful to look at but had a kind nurturing heart that she gave to anyone in need. She did not like Richard Burton when she first met him. She thought he was egotistical and full of himself. The morning she was to do a scene with him in Cleopatra he was hungover from the night before and reaching for a coffee his hand started to shake. She reached out to steady his uncontrollable shaking hand. And the rest is history. She loved flawed men and always stood up for anyone who she felt was an underdog. It didn't matter to her what your sexual orientation was. Very rare to find inner beauty that goes with fabulous eyes that you can't look away from. She was that rare specimen that was not only a wonderful actress but a truly wonderful human being. Elizabeth was a woman of substance and we shall never see the likes of her again.monty was lucky to have her in his life. Non judgemental was her mantra.

Ms. Patricia Bosewell. Your biography of Monty is a masterpiece. Many thanks for keeping him alive.

The best documentary on Clift. Perfect that it was made while those who knew him best still had their experiences fresh in the hair minds. Very sad

His brother's voice is so much like Monty's! It's like closing your eyes and hearing Monty's voice. Heartbreaking. ❤

Excellent documentary about a tortured man, who’s life was cut short from drugs and alcohol. I believe there was much more in his childhood that made him who he was, his scars were so deep. RIP

Monty's performance in "Judgement at Nuremberg" remains with me from seeing it as a boy. Astonishingly great.

After these decades, I still get sad thinking about Monty. He could play soft or hard, tough or gentle. I was a kid at the time when I saw "A Place in the Sun" and he was the first actor I ever fell in love with and I miss him so.

I am a cinema historian and was i obsessed with Brando, i discovered Monty clift after watching Red River, then i watched all his films, without him Marlon Brando wouldn’t have made it, Clift started his career 3 years before brando and Clift was the first method actor who had success. Life isn’t fair but brando was lucky that Clift had his accident in 1956, Brando took many sensitive roles after ‘On the waterfront’, like: Sayonara, The Young lions (Starring along with Montgomery clift, in their only film together), mutiny on the bounty (many criticized his sensitive approach to the character). in fact, the reason why brando’s performance in ‘waterfront’ was sensitive was thanks to the influence of Montgomery clift, Brando was getting involved in too many brute and macho characters. Brando improvised many brute and violent scenes into more sensitive ones (most prominently the contender scene), all thanks to Clift. Monty Clift was not just handsome for the ladies but a role model for the men, he inspired me to be a better man.

Remembering the greatest actor of his generation. The most romantic and the most gifted. He died 56 years ago today and have never never been forgotten. HIs films influence a generation and still continue to do so. Film retrospects are done all the time. Film Forum in New York just had one on him. Oh to see him in Red River, my favorite western. In A Place In The Sun. He and Elizabeth Taylor are so beautiful together. Wild River, From Here To Enternity, Freud which I had not seen in a long time. Raintree Country, a very underrated film. The Young Lions, where he out acted Brando. Monty you were good! Before Brando and Dean, there was Montgomery Clift the best of them all.

Montgomery Clift was an actor with depth and soul. His portrayals in the films he made left an imprint of his amazing craft full of emotion and amazement. c”,)

Edward Montgomery Clift is one of my favorite classic actors to watch on screen. He was very handsome and a natural huge talent. It's wonderful that Larry looked after him during his last days. That's a great friend. 😊

There are no actors like in those days. I grew up in the 70s watching these old movies with my parents.

Excellent documentary. This film gives such a clearer insight into Montgomery's life. Very beautiful yet sad.

I've looked at photos of him many, many times, and I still swoon every time! One of the most compelling actors ever. Wonder if modern psychiatric drugs would have helped him not medicate his own moods.

He was complicated and multi-faceted yet, he was very serious about the only craft he knew: acting. His crisis about his sexuality was drawn from his upbringing. He knew he was born gay. His mother knew. During his time, to be gay or bisexual was a curse and his homophobic mother didn't help. His friends didn't help. He was just this guy who was loving life and people couldn't relate with him. To them he was this mysterious being. He was born at the wrong time because he was ahead of his time.

Was so shocking the way his life ended up. He was so tormented in his personal life by himself. He was a very good actor and unique in his own way, that set him apart.

Wow,! What a man he was. So very complex but extraordinarily wonderful, elusive & talented... Love ❤️ U, Monty

Everybody loves you, Monty.

The best documentary on Clift. Thank you so much.

Looking at these pictures of Monte before his accident, I can see a BEAUTIFUL young man smiling and laughing, and pain free. After his accident, you never see him smile again. He always seemed to have to think before he responded to others inwhatever vehicle he was playing in. And being in chronic pain was not well understood then, so he fell into alcohol and drugs for self medication. That combination compounded his problems by causing depression and mood problems. Truly a tortured soul,.

Wonderful documentary. He was such a great actor. Yesterday I saw again "Suddenly, the Last Summer". So sad He died so young. Thanks so much for uploading this documentary 🎭🎭🎭

A must-see documentary on Monty Clift. I got to understand him much better after watching this. Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful movie about a beautiful soul. What a terrible tragedy. My heart weeps even after so many decades have passed and even though I was barely 5 years old when he passed away. Excellent documentary of his life - thank you so much for uploading

The voice of his brother sounds almost exactly like Montgomery Clift's voice in Judgment at Nuremberg.

As a fan, this was an amazingly touching and tragic story.

He had intractable, chronic pain from the car crash that dogged his existence for the rest of his life. I have it also, & it makes his post-crash performances all the more amazing. I always wondered why he didn't want to watch The Misfits on tv the night he died. It is such an underrated film, & one of his best performances, also one of the 1st films, through Marilyn Monroe's character, to address environmentalism & cruelty towards animals. It was a true 'sixties' film, & Clift freeing the mustangs at the end was both moving & prophetic.

Whiny friends who didn’t seem to help him much. I’ve read Bosworth’s book, it’s worth a read. This film doesn’t seem balanced now on a rewatching. And he did so many good/great films, they basically didn’t mention them, ugh.

Monty Clift : a legend! Loved him in The Search and From Here to Eternity!

An amazing actor. Truly one of the greatest.

Elizabeth Taylor was Monty’s best friend. When he had his accident she ran to the wreck & he was choking on his teeth, she got in the car, pulled out the teeth & he could breath again, saved his life. A new book Is coming out about their friendship.📚 When Elizabeth was given a Humanitarian Award by SAG, she said her 3 best friends were Gay: Monty, Jimmy (Dean) & Rock. Elizabeth was a Good Friend to Underdogs. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

A beautiful man, who as his brother Brooks spoke has never died. Also, kudos and gratitudes to his late biographer, the lovely and erudite Miss Patricia Bosworth.

It's really sad that so many wonderful gifted people end up with such sadness and pain in their lives. Actors, musician's, artists so many end up hook on alcohol and drugs and no one is able to help them. So sad. I just watch Red River and he was wonderful in that film, and he was certainly a very handsome man. Even though he's been gone nearly 54 years, I feel bad for him. I hope he has found the peace in heaven, he couldn't find here on earth.

His mother was an aristocrat because her real father was a colonel in the army and her grandfather had been Abraham Lincoln's secretary? Hmm, American's need to educate themselves on what an aristocrat is.

If you love Monty and you want to know more about his life, I truly recommend reading ‘Montgomery Clift’ by Patricia Bosworth. It gives a deep insight into Monty’s life, particularly his childhood.

His brother seems as lovely as he was.

Brooks Clift has the same voice as Monty.

What a fascinating documentary! I'm glad I watched it!!!

A wounded soul...they're everywhere! You just have to look! A fine actor and very handsome indeed. Always loved MC. 😍

*”Traveling is a hobgoblin experience for children. Why weren’t roots established? My brother has been married 3 times now.”* - Montgomery Clift.

A place in the sun is one of my top 5 favourite movies… I’m only 50 here in 2022 but the past couple of years we have started to watch the oldies from the 20s-60s and you can really find some incredible, funny, gentle, thoughtful movies from these decades. I have always been an 80s John Hughes movie buff but I wish more my age would go back and check out the golden age of theatre. I just watched Monty on what’s my line tonight .. that’s another great show

Thankyou, Montgomery Clift. You are a hero. We love you mate.

Very illuminating, sad, but also he was a true original, and it was those complexities about him that made him so watchable. Brooks, his brother, sounds exactly like him, it's astonishing. Patti Bosworth did an exceptional job of describing him here and her biography. I miss Patti who just passed last year.

Elizabeth Taylor was a great gal and a true friend to Monty. She never stopped loving and supporting him. God bless them both

such a great documentary and so many riveting interviews. montgomery clift will never not be fascinating. everything he went through and suffered.

I am reliving the golden years of movies and stars of long ago and Montgomery Clift is one of them totally mesmerising.

Monty's brother Brooks seems a very deep person, somehow afflicted (perhaps from a stroke?) in speech - which only adds to the power of his thoughts and memories. He also has his brother's soulful eyes.

The documentary was very informative, important, & interesting about Montgomery Cliff's life & career. Even though he was down right extremely handsome during his heyday, but to me despite his automobile accident scars in 1956; he still had that beauty afterwards in which he claimed he didn't have anymore. It's sad when you see all your flaws through darkness that it shades out the beauty that shines within you from the outside that others can see; that is what depression can do for you in the long run for your life until death if proper help is not administer in time to make a difference for the better. RIP Montgomery Cliff 🤔🎭📽🎬😒🙏🏾

Attractive, talented and powerfully disturbed 💔

A must see for Clift fans. Thanx for posting.

I have this on VHS. This just breaks my heart.

Thank you for posting... documentary specific I searched for !

Amazing movie. Finally, I saw a film about a human being, with his feelings, problems. People who knew him they didn't talk about a movie star, but a person. Now they don't make documentary like this and don't convey the atmosphere about people we can't see alive, but we want to understand what they were like and how they lived.

Thankyou sooo much!! Wonderfully Reavling Documentary on a Beautiful Actor/ Person with a Darkness not truly ever exactly known......Loved him RIP Monty ❣👏👍✌🏼

Great documentary but my God it's a tough watch it's just so sad.

His brother is so much like him..even in the way he talks

RIP Monty! We had the best of times ...

Rest in peace Patricia Bosworth.

One word "Enablers " with friends like that who needs enemies? It was all fun and games until addiction takes hold

At the age of 20 he was referred as "the oldest person in the room."

Cliff was A golden star** What A man he became With A smile**

handsome actor great actor Legends never dies

Thank you for uploading this documentary, it's very good, regardless whether you love Monty or not that much of a fаn, it's just a good documentary, very authentic, thanks again!

I did not know all of this. Thank you for this story.

I cannot see where he was so disfigured after the awful auto accident. I have no real way to tell which pictures were before and which after the accident. He looked as handsome as ever to me. The strange part of all this Is that I did not remember him from any movies in the 50’s when I would have seen how handsome he was and what a great actor he was. The only movie I ever saw him in was Raintree County and no real lasting memories of his performance. Of course I saw it at a drive inn that night, in the rain with us starting the car to use the windshield wipers throughout. That may have interfered with my concentration that night. In things I have seen since, I’m sure I would have been oh so smitten with this handsome talented man.

Amazing video!! Thanks so much for sharing 🤗

He was ....is still one of my favorites

Montgomery Clift was a gorgeous guy! I felt so sorry for him. Getting into that accident really did him in! Very sad! RIP Montgomery Clift🙏💔🫅♥️⭐️🔥

Monty Clift was a special actor, He was sensible, had Charisma, such an actor is not more in cinema 🌹today. 🌹🌾🪴😥

Brilliant documentary on a brilliant actor.

He and his brother were so handsome. It's a shame those days are gone forever, like them.

# "What could possibly have happened?" ...he grew up and saw humanity for what it really is...

"He began to drink heavily" This line appears time and again in Bosworths biography when she couldn't think of anything deeper or more interesting to observe.

My father was 5' 11 160 pounds and the absolute spitting image of Montgomery Clift. Ten years apart in age but same hair, same chiseled features. In the 1960s people would come up to him and make quite the fuss. They would insist on an autograph. Guess who I think of every time I see Montgomery Clift in a movie lol ?

I like Brooks. He seems gentle and kind

wow, elizabeth taylor was such a fine woman and friend

Kevin McCarthy starting here at 48:00 talks about the May 12, 1956 car accident that he personally witnessed and which changed Monty Clift's life forever.

Montgomery Clift could do or be anyone, his acting was simply amazing and his ultimate demise was what i think was what kept him from being Idolized along the likes of James Dean who was talented in a manner like monty in my opinion. Why are so many geniuses flawed so much? This doc is hard to watch, seeing such a giant of acting slowly self-destruct. Sad.

The stock market crash of 1932???? That was in 1929!!!!!!!

Happy 100th birthday montgomery cilft

“Wild River” was my favorite film of Monty’s. His movement was very limited by then. It is fascinating to watch his necessarily minimalistic acting style.

Sounds like the Clift bro's enjoyed happy hour...lol

This is wonderful - very intelligent and personal.

Montgomery Clift was described as having some kind of strange, unwarranted sadness about himself. He told his friend Elizabeth Taylor that he was also sexually attracted to men. Among the public, this was not supposed to exist among leading, masculine men in Hollywood.

Well made and insightful. Very moving.

Thank you very much for your documentary

Sadly quite young 2 died at the aged of 45..... BORN: 17 OCTOBER 1920 RIP :23 JULY 1966 Buried at QUAKERS CEMENTARY;NEW YORK park hidden area...

Well ... If you're not living on the edge, then you are taking up too much room ! These '' Great '' performance Artists really seem to flourish for a time, at the right time and then seem to wilt, wither, and die ... of a type of exhaustion in spirit , and mind the rest of us cannot understand. Perhaps, we exact too high a price ... and they know only how to give without taking back ? CR

Clift, Brando & Dean are iconic on Steroids & will never be replaced or duplicated. RIP Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando & James Dean🫅🙏💕🤴🙏💕🫅🙏💕. Montgomery Clift was truly a very special guy in every sense of the word. A Prince is the best to descibe him‼️🫅♥️

Brother sounds like Monty in Judgment at Nuremburg.

His brother's voice is so very much like Montgomery's and even some of his mannerisms. I am left at a loss to understand the relationship that he had with his siblings as an adult. Were they close? Were they estranged?

his Brother Is SOOO Beautiful

So misunderstood..... He had hypoparathyroidism. A devastating condition due to a surgery when he was young. It explains alot. So sad people didn't understand this tortured man.

Very versatile actor of late fortys n fifties,died at very young age otherwise would have been greatest among all actors.Red River,I confess,From Here to Eternity,The Heiress n A place in the Sun speak itself his depth of acting n performance.

Sure wish Fonda wasn't in this 😫

Not sure what the ‘Aristocratic’ connection is that Patrica Bosworth speaks.

*This is in memory of Ivan Jandl (1937-1987), the young boy who was at the center of "The Search," Montgomery Clift's first movie. Jandl was one of the youngest recipients of an Academy Award--but was not allowed to go to America to collect it. After the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, he was persecuted to a certain degree for having taken part in an American movie.*

His mother was a whole fool. This is what happens when people raise their children believing that they are owed something that was never meant to be theirs in the first place, and also what happens when people believe that beauty can get them everything forgetting that beauty fades, generations pass and "acting" is neither medicine nor rocket science... It's just acting. To many people think they are more special than others when they are simply just another human being.

TRAGIC.....I always adored his films.....but never realized how deeply disturbed he was. The alcohol and drugs only fueled the depression and angst. We lost a beautiful person...

they all knew he was gay they just talk around it