I could never understand why Marty and his friends termed Clara a ‘dog’. Clara (Betsy Blair) was pretty, nice and intelligent.
It was Marty and his friends who were ‘dogs’.
That just didn’t compute. They should have used a less attractive actress or done something to ‘ugly up’ Betsy Blair.
“I could never understand why Marty and his friends termed Clara a ‘dog’. Clara (Betsy Blair) was pretty, nice and intelligent.”
I’m reminded of the scene where martys friends are flipping through the pages of some girlie magazine. Chances are they were comparing Clara, as well as every real life girl they ran across, with their ideal beautiful girls that they saw in those magazines.