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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.
29 January 1923, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
8 September 1893, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
6 November 1906, New Jersey, USA
23 October 1923, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA
2 August 1913, New York, USA
July 13, 1915 in Tennessee, USA
5 June 1922, Seattle, Washington, USA
7 September 1927, Johnstown, New York, USA
22 September 1894, Eureka, California, USA
27 April 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
December 12, 2006
Dowdy but winning and poignant.
June 24, 2006
It does have doggy charm and a certain perceptiveness.
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 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.
February 19, 2008
It's a warm, human, sometimes sentimental and an enjoyable experience.
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."
May 20, 2003
A warm and winning film, full of the sort of candid comment on plain, drab people that seldom reaches the screen.
February 20, 2008
Enormously influential, it spawned Hollywood's interest in smaller scale, prosaic dramas, few of which failed to match its resonance.
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 19, 2008
Chayevsky's TV drama transferred effortlessly to cinema.
September 06, 2016
Going to the dogs in fine style
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.
