Product Information
The story of a butcher from the Bronx who fears he will never meet the right girl.Product Identifiers
ProducerHarold Hecht
EAN5050070009460
eBay Product ID (ePID)3964762
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleMarty
ActorEsther Minciotti, Karen Steele, Joe Mantell, Augusta Ciolli, Joe De Santis, Frank Sutton, Walter Kelley, Ernest Borgnine, Robin Morse, Betsy Blair, Jerry Paris
DirectorDelbert Mann
Subtitle LanguageFrench\Italian\Spanish
Release Year2003
FeaturesOriginal Theatrical Trailer\Interactive Menu\Chapter Selection, Black & White, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
Aspect Ratio1.33 Full Screen
GenreDrama, General
Additional Product Features
CertificateU
Number of Discs1
Director of PhotographyJoseph LaShelle
Costume DesignerNorma
Production DesignerWalter Simonds, Robert Priestley, Edward S. Haworth
AuthorPaddy Chayefsky
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\French\Spanish\Italian
Hearing ImpairedEnglish\German
Additional InformationDelbert 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.
Movie/TV TitleMarty
ComposerRoy Webb
Sound sourceDolby Digital Mono
ScreenwriterPaddy Chayefsky
Format DescriptionDVD 5