Marty [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of Marty [VHS]
Movie Review: Great Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Marty" is absolutely one of the best films ever made. It not only shows the reality of the main character's situation, but it also shows the cultural realm where he lived. I had Italian grandparents, and this portrayal is very real! Ernest Borgnine shines in this story, and I'm impressed with his acting every time I watch it.
Movie Review: MISSING A KEY SCENE
Summary: 1 Stars
FIVE STARS for the movie ONE STAR for this DVD because it is MISSING THE KEY SCENE when Clara talks to her parents in their bedroom after Marty drops her off. The DVD cuts from Clara putting her key in the door to Marty walking to the bus stop. Why the scene is cut I haven't a clue.Movie Review: Marty
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a great movie and I gave it 5 stars...wish they made these kind of movies still..thank you Sharon Hill..[...].Movie Review: MARTY Is a Gem
Summary: 5 Stars
The golden age of television drama - plays written to be produced on TV - in the U.S. was the 1950's and early 1960's. During this era, three dramatists dominated the airwaves. They were Rod Serling (PATTERNS, REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT, THE COMEDIAN), Reginald Rose (TWELVE ANGRY MEN), and Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote MARTY. This gem of a play was produced on TV in 1953 with Rod Steiger in the title role. In 1955 it was made into a movie starring Ernest Borgnine; this is the version under consideration here.
A charming, touching ninety-minute character study, MARTY is about Marty Pilletti, a shy, heavyset bachelor who works as a butcher. This thirty-four year old man comes from a large Italian-American family in which it is a shame to be single. All of Marty's younger siblings are married, and the question on the lips of everyone - his mother, the neighbors - is, `Marty, when are YOU gonna get married?' Marty wants to make up his own mind, yet he is too kind a man to tell the others to let him alone. Then he meets Clara Snyder, a nice but plain girl, at a dance hall one night. Though they like each other instantly, Marty's bachelor friends protest his choice, while his mother begins to feel that if her son marries and moves out of her house, she will be lonely. In the end, Marty himself must choose between loneliness and love.
From the start, this MARTY has a stage-like quality; Chayefsky's dialogue bubbles along, and every word of it is genuine. Borgnine's portrayal of Marty is so tenderly emotional, so real...in short, he IS Marty. Betsy Blair matches him perfectly as Clara. Joe Mantell - who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance as Marty's friend Angie - speaks the script's famous, emblematic line, "So, whatta ya feel like doin' tonight, Marty?" This line sums up a beautiful movie, one which comes from TV's golden age and which should be even better known than it is.
Movie Review: "I'm a fat ugly man!" (recommended)
Summary: 4 Stars
Not many stars can convincingly call themselves and their supporting actress "dogs" and still win an Academy Award. Marty (Ernest Borgnine) has the normal desires of most men (of his day) -- to find a nice young woman and get married. This can only be achieved when he stops looking at women through the eyes of his friends or family. Borgnine delivers a powerful performance on lessons in non-superficial love.
Costar Betsy Blair's name appeared in the "Red Channels" during the McCarthy era, effectively ending her acting career in the early 50s. Against all odds she won the role of a lifetime in this 1955 cinematic classic MARTY after dance legend Gene Kelly, her husband of 17 years (1940-1957), threatened to stop shooting pictures for MGM if she wasn't allowed the lead part despite the blacklist. It is a shame that even with the award her movie career and marriage came to a close.
Movie quote: "You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain."