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Title:Movie Reviews and Discussion
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Created:Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1249
Total number of notes:16012

989.0. "Marty" by BEMUS::KELLEY () Tue Dec 26 1995 10:20

Since the previous note was on an old
movie, I figured I'd add this old standard.

I watched it this past weekend.

Great movie for any single folks out there.

Ernest Borgnine (McHale's Navy) plays Marty,
a good-hearted, albeit not-so-attractive butcher,
who wants to settle down but can't find a woman.

His friends say he should find "dolls" like from
the Mickey Spillane books they read. But Marty
meets a "dog" at a dance and falls in love
with her despite what his mother, brother, and
friends all think of her.

I believe this won an Oscar for Best Picture
in 1955. Borgnine took home Best Actor and 
Paddy Chayefsky wrote the screenplay.

For any of you '60s TV fans out there look
for the actor who played Sgt. Carter on
Gomer Pyle and the actress who played one
of Mudd's Women on the original Star Trek 
series.

JK
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989.1BSS::BRUNOBurly Computer NerdTue Dec 26 1995 11:589
    
         I saw this one during an insomnia bout two years ago.  It was
    pretty good, but I never knew the name.  I'd seen Ernest Borgnine
    play a couple of bad guys and "McHale", but never the "vulnerable and
    love-starved" role he had here.
    
         Good stuff.
    
                                         Greg
989.2SUFRNG::WSA038::SATTERFIELDClose enough for jazz.Tue Jan 02 1996 13:5410

Borgnine's best performance as an actor, imho. This film started a wave of
cheaply produced, "realistic" films. It was first produced for television
(and possibly the theatre, I don't remember). My laserdisc has an introduction
by Burt Lancaster who was a part owner of the company that produced the film.
I'm not sure if that intro is usually included in television broadcasts.


Randy
989.3Burt Lancaster IntroBEMUS::KELLEYThu Jan 04 1996 10:2314
I rented a videotape of the movie.

No intro by Lancaster on it. It would
be interesting to hear it. I think a number
of bigtime Hollywood actors tried to do more
independent, realistic films during that period.

I heard one time that James Cagney and his family
tried to produce independent films but they didn't
make money with them. Eventually he had to go back
to bigger films and star in "White Heat."


JK
989.4SUFRNG::WSA038::SATTERFIELDClose enough for jazz.Tue Jan 09 1996 13:267
If I remember correctly Cagney produced three films for his company and lost
a good bit of money. He used his sister in a major role in at least one of
them.


Randy