Marty

It's the love story of an unsung hero!
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 29, 2014
  • Originally Released: 1955
  • Label: KL Studios Classics

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1955 - Best Actor: Ernest Borgnine
Academy Awards 1955 - Best Adapted Screenplay: Paddy Chayefsky
Academy Awards 1955 - Best Director: Delbert Mann
Academy Awards 1955 - Best Picture: Not Applicable
Cannes 1955 - Palme d'Or: Not Applicable

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 6,717
Rating: 4/5 -- Enormously influential, it spawned Hollywood's interest in smaller scale, prosaic dramas, few of which failed to match its resonance. Full Review
Empire Magazine
Feb 20, 2008
It's a warm, human, sometimes sentimental and an enjoyable experience. Full Review
Variety
Feb 19, 2008
The emergence of this humane and perceptive film and its vast public acceptance during a year of continuing wide-screen frenzy has given a healthy indication that both the industry and the public can still respond to the better things. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Oct 7, 2019
It does have doggy charm and a certain perceptiveness. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: 4/5 -- As the loveable, plain-talking lug, Borgnine showed an acting depth not hinted at in previous villain roles. Full Review
Sky Cinema
Nov 17, 2011
A warm and winning film, full of the sort of candid comment on plain, drab people that seldom reaches the screen. Full Review
New York Times
May 20, 2003
[Rod] Steiger's body language communicate not just his loneliness but his resignation to living out his life as "a fat, ugly little man." Full Review
Seanax.com
Dec 6, 2009

Product Description:

Delbert Mann's big-screen remake of Paddy Chayefsky's 1953 teleplay, one of the most successful works of film's Golden Age, stars Ernest Borgnine as Bronx butcher, Marty Piletti. A good-natured man, if plain and overweight, the 34-year-old bachelor has become fed up with the dreariness of life with vacant, dead-end friends like Angie (Joe Mantell), omnipresent relatives like his cousin Tommy (Jerry Paris), and his nagging mother, Theresa (Esther Minciotti), with whom he shares a house. Often rejected by women, he feels that he is too unattractive to marry, and is far from eager to endure further humiliation. Still, Marty finds himself at a local dance hall, where he angrily refuses a man who offers him a few bucks to take home a blind date who has turned out to be a dog. The butcher seeks out the humiliated woman, Clara (Betsy Blair), who's in tears, and after he comforts her, they return to the dance. As Marty confesses similar experiences of his own to Clara, he realizes that he may have found the woman he's been looking for. Influenced by neo-realist masterpieces like UMBERTO D, Chayefsky's poignant, brilliantly observed kitchen-sink drama remains as persuasive as ever, as it explores the universal need to give and receive love.

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  • UPC: 738329132927
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