What do you think of Montgomery Clift?

Question, What do you think of Montgomery Clift?

I've been watching a few films lately (Judgment, The Misfits, A Place In The Sun) and I must say, what a talent. A talent gone too soon. He was absolutely magnificent in the films I have seen him in and is always the best part in them. I honestly think he was the only one who could go toe to toe to Brando during that period.

Though, as I watch his films, the more I lament his car crash that really resulted in his decline. While the car crash didn't kill him, it most certainly broke him as a person, and you can tell, by watching his later performances, it changed him forever and little by little, it made more unreliable for Hollywood. It also saddens me that he died young, at 45. I really wonder if Clift had lived, he would of made a career revival, like Brando.

Also apparently, Clift was considered for Rope, Sunset Boulevard, High Noon, Shane, Desiree, On The Waterfront, East Of Eden, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Lawrence Of Arabia, & Fahrenheit 451.

All in All, What do you think of Montgomery Clift?

Do you think he would of made a career revival like Brando did in the 70s if he had lived?