Reportedly, the stars began an off-screen love affair while making this film - a story of unconsummated passion between a rich midwestern boy and a passionate young girl.It won the Best Picture Oscar in the year of its release - its only nomination.Only two other times has the film named Best Picture failed to win any other awards:Broadway Melody (1928/9)andMutiny On the Bounty (1935)."Doc" was zapped back seventy years to 1885 to the western town of Hill Valley in the past.Standing there alone, Marty received a 70 year-old Western Union message expressly delivered to him from "Doc" at that point in time.When he also implied that she was "cheap" and "vulgar" - she slapped him, and announced her decision to run off with Griffiths o Paris.There, he drives a truck in a lumbering company - his "first job in four months." But the job is short-lived and he must again hit the road.Appearing increasingly like a transient, penniless bum, he travels by rail to the St.Louis area.In a pawn shop, he offers to give up his BelgianCroix de Guerre, but the owner already has a drawer case full of medals from other unemployed, vagrant veterans.