Marty (1955)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:28
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8/10
Consensus: Scriptwriter Paddy Chayefsky's solid dialogue is bolstered by strong performances from Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair in this appealingly low-key character study.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Delbert 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... [More]
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe De Santis, Joe Mantell
Director: Delbert Mann
Reviews for Marty
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 4/5 |
Enormously influential, it spawned Hollywood's interest in smaller scale, prosaic dramas, few of which failed to match its resonance. Full Review |
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Chayevsky's TV drama transferred effortlessly to cinema. Full Review |
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It does have doggy charm and a certain perceptiveness. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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It's a warm, human, sometimes sentimental and an enjoyable experience. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Dowdy but winning and poignant. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Ernest Borgning and Betsy Blair are the highlights of this short and unassuming picture about the trials of love and family. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Too self-conscious by half, the film both invites you in and makes you wonder if it's not all a trick. Full Review |
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3/4 |
A modest film (for an Oscar-winner) that captures with attention to detail its Bronx working class milieu, but it patronizes its "little" people: "You're not really as much of a dog as you think you are, the butcher Marty tells his girlfriend Clara. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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5/5 |
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3/5 |
A bravura performance from Borgnine
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3.5/5 |
Tragicomic and simple, Marty's celebrated status is rightly earned, but it may be a bit to naive and simplistic for today's hard-bitten audiences. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Ernest Borgnine can act!?!?!? He was great in this classic tale about a guy who thinks love is unattainable.
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4/5 |
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4/5 |
Um filme simples e eficaz.
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5/5 |
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A solidly crafted work that still pleases. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A warm and winning film, full of the sort of candid comment on plain, drab people that seldom reaches the screen. Full Review |
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