Marty
Although he is good-natured, Marty is still unmarried at the age of 34 due to his socially awkward personality. After being goaded by his mother to marry, he goes to the Stardust Ballroom one Saturday night, and lucky enough meets the lonely teacher Clara. Suddenly, he now has a chance to get out of the bachelorhood.
25 July 1925, San Francisco, California, USA
25 May 1898, Portland, North Dakota, USA
1 May 1917, Los Angeles, California, USA
July 13, 1915 in Tennessee, USA
20 May 1888, Provincia di Torino, Piemonte, Italy
18 April 1899, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
21 December 1915, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
27 April 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
11 December 1923, Cliffside Park, New Jersey, USA
20 March 1931, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
2 August 1913, New York, USA
September 06, 2016
Going to the dogs in fine style
December 06, 2009
[Rod] Steiger's body language communicate not just his loneliness but his resignation to living out his life as "a fat, ugly little man."
February 19, 2008
It's a warm, human, sometimes sentimental and an enjoyable experience.
February 19, 2008
Chayevsky's TV drama transferred effortlessly to cinema.
June 24, 2006
It does have doggy charm and a certain perceptiveness.
February 18, 2009
Ernest Borgnine as Marty lives up to all the promise he showed as the sadist in From Here to Eternity, and at the same time brilliantly shatters the type-cast he molded for himself in that picture.
May 20, 2003
A warm and winning film, full of the sort of candid comment on plain, drab people that seldom reaches the screen.
December 12, 2006
Paddy Chayevsky's script, adapted from his own TV play, shows his flair for dialogue at its best, and the film manages to be touching, if minor.
February 21, 2014
Audiences used to seeing Borgnine in more menacing roles in films such as From Here to Eternity and Bad Day at Black Rock warmed to his sympathetic portrayal of the Bronx butcher with low self-esteem.
December 12, 2006
Dowdy but winning and poignant.
February 24, 2016
It is a sentimental, heart-warming, simple story of a couple of ugly ducklings who find compensation for their lack of good looks in each other's love.
February 20, 2008
Enormously influential, it spawned Hollywood's interest in smaller scale, prosaic dramas, few of which failed to match its resonance.
