Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
Directed by Delbert Mann
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Cast
Rod Steiger
Marty Pilletti
Nancy Marchand
Clara
Esther Minciotti
Mrs. Pilletti
Joe Mantell
Angie
Augusta Ciolli
Aunt Catherine
Betsy Palmer
Virginia
Lee Philips
Tommy
Rossana San Marco
Woman
Nehemiah Persoff
The Critic
Howard Caine
The Bartender
Don Gordon
Young Man
Andrew Gerardo
Patsy
Rachel Maiori
Short Girl
Mary Ann Reeves
Girl
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