| Category |
Drama
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| All Genres: |
Drama, Romance |
| Year: |
1955 |
| Country: |
USA |
| Runtime: |
91 minutes |
| Languages: |
English |
| Director: |
Delbert Mann |
| Sound: |
Mono |
| Taglines: |
EVERYBODY'S RAVING ABOUT "MARTY" . . . The year's BIG entertainment surprise a warm and human story with characters you'll love and remember!It's the love story of an unsung hero!a wonderful guy . . . once you've met him, you'll never forget him! |
| Writing by: |
Paddy Chayefsky - screenplay
Paddy Chayefsky - story
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| Produced by: |
Paddy Chayefsky - associate producer
Harold Hecht - producer
Burt Lancaster - co-producer (uncredited)
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| Cast: |
Ernest Borgnine - Marty Piletti
Betsy Blair - Clara Snyder
Esther Minciotti - Mrs. Theresa Piletti
Augusta Ciolli - Aunt Catherine
Joe Mantell - Angie
Karen Steele - Virginia
Jerry Paris - Tommy
James Bell - Mr. Snyder (uncredited)
Joe Bell - Bit Role (uncredited)
John Beradino - Man in Bar (uncredited)
Nick Brkich - Bachelor (uncredited)
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| Music: |
Roy Webb Joseph Harnell |
| Official Website: |
Visit Website
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Plot Outline:
A touching story about two lonely people who have almost resigned themselves to never being truly loved. |
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Plot:
Marty (Ernest Borgnine) is a 34-year-old butcher whose Italian family is constantly after him to get married. He meets plain-looking schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair). They are both lonely, unglamorous people who have resigned themselves to their unloved lives. But they manage, in time, to grope their way to love.
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MARTY is of continuing relevance..., 16 July 1999
As an under-30 viewer of Marty I wanted to take the time to say that I believe the value in a film such as this lies in the fact that it deals with themes that continue to be of relevance to contemporary viewers.
In particular, Marty has to deal with a widow mother whom attempts to thwart his chance at love in order to preserve her own central position in his life. The situation is not dissimilar to one that my boyfriend has to deal with- his mother is a widow and she is worried that if her son marries she will be displaced and have no social worth.
Ernest Borgnine's performance was superb, especially the scene in which he yells at his mother to lay-off trying to make him go out and find a girl at the Stardust Ballroom when he knows that all the night has in store for him is more heart-ache.
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| Movie Quotes: |
Aunt Catherine: College girls are one step from the street, I tell you. My son Joseph wife, she type on the typewriter - one step from the street!
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| Crazy Credits:: |
We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Girls Rule! (at the end of the credits) |
| Goofs: |
We know about 3 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: During the conversation with Marty, Angie and their friends about how Mickey Spillane writes women, Marty's shirt is alternately unbuttoned/buttoned between shots. |
| Trivia: |
There are 16 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- A Moscow screening of the film during a 1959 cultural-exchange program made it the first U.S. feature seen in the U.S.S.R. since World War II.
- This is the remake of a 1953 TV movie of the same name, with Rod Steiger in the title role.
- At 91 minutes long, this has the shortest running time of any film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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