MARTY
Written by
Paddy Chayefsky
SHOOTING DRAFT
1955
NEW YORK CITY, 187TH STREET. A SUMMER DAY
FADE IN:
Just east of Webster Avenue in the North Bronx, 187th Street
is a predominantly Italian community and the commercial avenue
of the neighborhood. Fruit and vegetable stands, pizzerias,
butcher shops, bakeries, cleaners and dyers and bars flourish.
It is Saturday morning around eleven o'clock -- a market
day.WOMEN, dark, gesticulative, with bulging cloth shopping bags,
baby carriages. MERCHANTS at their improvised street stands,
hawking their wares, disputing with their CUSTOMERS, roaring
salutations to PASSERSBY.In the midst of all this, CAMERA HOMES IN on a typical
neighborhood...BUTCHER SHOP.