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.
Rod Steiger
as Marty Pilletti
Nancy Marchand
as Clara
Esther Minciotti
as Mrs. Pilletti
Joe Mantell
as Angie
Augusta Ciolli
as Aunt Catherine
Betsy Palmer
as Virginia
Lee Philips
as Tommy
Rossana San Marco
as Woman
Nehemiah Persoff
as The Critic
Howard Caine
as The Bartender
Don Gordon
as Young Man
Andrew Gerardo
as Patsy
