Marty (1954) DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: BORGNINE,ERNEST
EAN: 9780792850120
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850122
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledSpanishDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: MGMDM109894D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 91 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
Average Rating: 
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Excellent film they dont have the guts to make em this good anymore, this movie reminded me of my friday and saturday night singles dance years, i always felt like marty in the movie, i even met a girl like the one he met in the movie.
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here's real drama here and it's not just Marty who has problems. There are his young married cousins who are feeling the frustrations of living in a cramped apartment with their baby and widowed mother. There is Marty's mother who is afraid of living her own old age alone. There are his buddies who are as equally bored as Marty. But most of all, there is the wallflower schoolteacher, played by Betsy Blair, who is just a mite to pretty for the role. When Marty meets her at a dance where she has just ... Read More
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This film is top notch. I can really relate to the main character Marty Paletti as I was in the same position as Marty about 30 years ago. What I think is so beautiful about this film is that you don't think about "star personalites". You feel that these people aren't acting-they are so real. There are so many touching scenes -especially between Marty and his mother. As I also had Italian grandparents the Italian family background was quite familiar to me. I highly recommend this film to those who ... Read More
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I remember clearly seeing the film in 1954, and loved it, as did a large segment of the population. So when I realized I could get it on DVD and an absurdly low price, jumped at it. I was not disappointed The visual quality of the DVD is perfect. I recommend it highly.
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Outrageously clipped! An entire scene, in fact the ONLY scene between Clara and her parents, is missing. What was the problem? Old people in their pajamas? A married couple in bed? TWIN beds! Their daughter expressing her thoughts on the events of the evening? This was a pivotal scene where the viewer sees things from Clara's perspective and really understands just how momentous this night has been, and how much more it could mean.
What does a film have to do to deserve preservation? I would have ... Read More
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Borgnine stars as a lonely bachelor who finds romance with another lonely soul who had given up on love.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-DEC-2001
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Originally broadcast as a 50-minute drama on Philco Television Playhouse in 1953, Marty ensured Paddy Chayefsky's status as one of the greatest writers of television's golden age. When Chayefsky, director Delbert Mann, and actor Ernest Borgnine reunited for this 90-minute film version, the play had been polished with extra scenes, further perfecting Chayefsky's timeless study of loneliness and heartbreak. And the film, in which Borgnine excels as the single, 35-year-old "fat and ugly" butcher Marty Pilletti, received well-deserved Oscars® for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay. Although Chayefsky's central theme is the pain of being unwanted (as felt by Marty himself as well as his elderly Aunt Catherine, who's become a burden to her married daughter), the film is never somber or depressing, and achieves a rare quality of honesty, humor, and hopefulness without resorting to artifice or sentiment.
Marty's just about given up on love when he meets plain-looking Clara (Betsy Blair), a 29-year-old teacher who's endured similar cycles of rejection. Much of Marty explores the simple decency of these characters, their admirable qualities and mutual connection, and the slow escalation of self-esteem that will hold them together. Marty is a supremely compassionate film, but it's also an entertaining one, trimmed (like a good butcher's meat) of any dramatic fat. And although Blair (who earned an Oscar nomination) is superb in her role, it's worth noting that she's more conventionally "attractive" than Nancy Marchand (late of The Sopranos), who played Clara with arguably greater authenticity in the original 1953 telecast. --Jeff Shannon
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