‘Marty’ (1955)
“It’s the story of a Saturday night in a man’s life,” boasts the trailer, and you’re already yawning. It was based on a television play, originally inspired by making an ordinary love story. Featuring ordinary, everyday people on screen was novel at the time, but given cinema’s subsequent ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the film has lost the novelty that made it so special. Sadly, ordinary isn’t something that sticks in our minds.