BackgroundMarty(1955) is the poignant, simple character study of a lonely, unmarried, lovelorn middle-aged, 34 year old son who works as a Bronx butcher and still lives with his love-smothering mother.[Harry accused Lucius of originally slipping the diary into Ginny""s cauldron the day that they were shopping at Diagon Alley at the film""s start.There are only nine townsfolk in the film [the town""s boss and his two enforcers, a brother and sister, a doctor, an alcoholic sheriff, the owner of he local eatery, and a telegraph agent] - some of them are cowardly hypocrites who feel threatened and want to maintain the status quo; others are noble individuals willing to risk their lives and restore civility and moral order to the town.She was attempting to live a normal life (but under the pretense of an assumed false identity to escape her past), while she was heavily medicated and experiencing frightening nightmares and paranoid visions of Michael appearing everywhere - she saw the killer in her dreams, in window reflections, and in her mind.Ellie had researched her father""s appointment book, and surmised that he had run into rouble after October 20th, when he was to pick up more Halloween masks in the small town of Santa Mira, California (an inspired connection toInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)), he location of a large Irish community, and the Silver Shamrock Novelties factory.