Ep. 29 - Marty with Alex Robertson, Burton Brown & Roseanne Caputi

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This week on Fabulous Film and Friends, we’re going to pay homage to the noble everyman by discussing the 1955 drama Marty directed by Delbert Mann, written by Paddy Chayefsky and startring Ernest Borgine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Karen Steele, Esther Minciotti and Sergeant Carter himself, Frank Sutton. 

Like all of us around the world for the past few weeks, I’m worried about  the fate of the people of the Ukraine and for the future of this planet but hopeful in the idea that the goodness and righteousness that can be found in the best of us will prevail.

Rather than discuss a war film or a film about  Russian politics, I thought we should take solace and recommend the sweet simplicity found in Marty. 

I’m joined by my regular crowd, sister Roseanne and good friends Alex Robertson and Burton Brown. 

The synopsis: 

Marty is a regular Joe, a 34-year old neighborhood butcher and bachelor living with his Italian mother in The Bronx, who carries on with his day-to-day routine feeling the pinch of his lack of prospects and self-percieved unattractiveness. frittering away his weekends with his drinking buddies and aimlessly looking for something to do and someone to share his life with.  One night he meets a woman  named Clara at a dance club who is his perfect match, except everyone around him keeps calling her a dog, including his own mother. 

Marty takes the criticism to heart and superficially ignores Clara until he comes to his senses and realizes she’s his soulmate. 

Is Marty a soothing balm for these troubling times?

Find out!