Marty

Marty

The Adventures of Spin and Marty premiered on The Mickey Mouse Club in 1955 and scored an instant hit. Like many of Disney's most successful creations, Spin and Marty was a simple story. Rich, coddled Martin Markham (David Stollery) arrives at the Triple R in his grandmother's limousine and dismisses the dude ranch for boys as "a dirty old farm." His comment angers everyone, especially Spin Evans (Tim Considine), the most popular boy on the ranch. Over the course of the summer, Marty learns to relax and make friends; he and Spin become best buddies. Humor and wisdom are dispensed by wrangler Ollie (Leonard P. Greer), "Well I'll be a blue-nosed gopher!"; Marty's fussy butler, Perkins (J. Pat O'Malley); avuncular foreman Bill Burnett (Harry Carey, Jr.); and George (Sammee Tong), the Chinese cook, who regales the boys with Western songs in Cantonese. The characters proved so popular Disney brought them back in The Further Adventures of Spin and Marty (1957) and The New Adventures of Spin and Marty (1957). For Baby Boomers, Spin and Marty packs the kind of nostalgic wallop the "Andy Hardy" movies and The Wizard of Oz had for earlier generations. During the '50s, millions of kids dreamed of spending the summer at the Triple R. In More Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin suggests that whether you identify with Spin or Marty constitutes a key division in American society, comparable to who your favorite Beatle was. In the extras, a dismayingly old Considine and Stollery revisit the ranch in Newhall, CA, where the series was filmed. This set is a sure-fire gift choice for aging Boomers. (Unrated, suitable for all ages: minor violence) --Charles Solomon

Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Delbert Mann
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Won 4 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NR (Not Rated)
Year:
1955
90
1,800 Views
It's the love story of an unsung hero!
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Mrs. Pilletti:
(serving dinner): So, what are you gonna do tonight Marty?

Marty:
I don't know, Ma. I'm all knocked out. I may just hang around the house.

Mrs. Pilletti:
Why don't you go to the Stardust Ballroom?

Marty:
What?

Mrs. Pilletti:
I say, why don't you go to the Stardust Ballroom? It's loaded with tomatoes.

Marty:
It's loaded with what?

Mrs. Pilletti:
Tomatoes.

Marty:
(laughs) Who told you about the Stardust Ballroom, Ma?

Mrs. Pilletti:
Tommy. He say it was a very nice place.

Marty:
Oh, Thomas. Ma, it's just a big dance hall, that's all it is. I been there a hundred times. Loaded with tomatoes - boy, you're funny, Ma.

Mrs. Pilletti:
Marty, I don't want you to hang around the house tonight. I want you to go take a shave and go dance.

Marty:
(pleading) Ma, when you gonna give up? You got a bachelor on your hands. I ain't never gonna get married.

Mrs. Pilletti:
You're gonna get married.

Marty:
Ma, sooner or later, there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain't got it. I chased after enough girls in my life. I-I went to enough dances. I got hurt enough. I don't wanna get hurt no more. I just called up a girl this afternoon, and I got a real brush-off, boy! I figured I was past the point of being hurt, but that hurt. Some stupid woman who I didn't even want to call up. She gave me the brush. No, Ma, I don't wanna go to Stardust Ballroom because all that ever happened to me there was girls made me feel like I was a-a-a bug. I got feelings, you know. I-I had enough pain. No thanks, Ma!

Mrs. Pilletti:
Marty -

Marty:
No. I'm gonna stay home tonight and watch The Hit Parade.

Mrs. Pilletti:
(said with regret) You're gonna die without a son.

Marty:
So I'll die without a son.

Mrs. Pilletti:
Marty, put on the blue suit, huh?

Marty:
Blue suit, gray suit, I'm just a fat, little man. A fat ugly man.

Mrs. Pilletti:
You not ugly.

Marty:
I'm ugly, I'm ugly, I'm ugly!

Mrs. Pilletti:
Marty -

Marty:
(He rises, agitated) Ma, leave me alone. Ma, whaddaya want from me? Whaddaya want from me? I'm miserable enough as it is. All right, so I'll go to the Stardust Ballroom. I'll put on a blue suit, and I'll go. And you know what I'm gonna get for my trouble? Heartache. A big night of heartache.


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