Joe Mantell

Roman Polanski's classic LA noir mystery following private eye JJ Gittes (Jack Nicholson) and his investigation into local government corruption at the behest of troubled beauty Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway)...

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood.