Country: USA
Year: 1964
Duration: 15'


Murray, a smalltime gangster, presents himself directly to the audience. He brags about his highliving life style. Then he presents the people who are around him. There are his wife and an exnurse he met in the jail he was put in, taking the rap for his partner. There is Joe, his partner, whose qualities Murray praises despite the fact that Joe is having an affair with this wife. Last, there is his mother, who stuffs Italian specialties down his throat.

Biography

film director

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese (New York, NY, USA, 1942) graduated from New York University in 1964 and debuted in feature films three years later with Who’s That Knocking at My Door? His films include Mean StreetsTaxi Driver (Golden Palm in Cannes in 1976), Raging BullGoodfellas, CasinoGangs of New York andThe Departed (Oscar for best director), making him – right from the 1970s – one of the most important American filmmakers. 

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (Chi sta bussando alla mia porta?, 1967)Mean Streets (Mean Streets - Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all’inferno, 1973),Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Alice non abita più qui, 1974), Taxi Driver(id., 1976), New York, New York (id., 1977), The Last Waltz (L’ultimo valzer, 1978), Raging Bull (Toro scatenato, 1980), The King of Comedy (Re per una notte, 1983), After Hours (Fuori orario, 1985), The Last Temptation of Christ(L’ultima tentazione di Cristo, 1988), Goodfellas (Quei bravi ragazzi, 1990),Cape Fear (Cape Fear - Il promontorio della paura, 1991), The Age of Innocence (L’età dell’innocenza, 1993), Casino (Casinò, 1995), Kundun (id.,1997), Bringing Out the Dead (Al di là della vita, 2000), Gangs of New York(id., 2002), The Aviator (id., 2004), No Direction Home - Bob Dylan (id., doc., 2005), The Departed (The Departed - Il bene e il male, 2006), Shutter Island(id., 2010), George Harrison - Living in the Material World (doc., 2011).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Martin Scorsese.
Aiuto-regia: Mardik Martin.
Screenplay: Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin.
Director of photography: Richard H. Coll, Edwin Grant.
Editor: Eli F. Bleich.
Scenografia e costumi: Lancelot Braithwaite, Victor Magnotta.
Music: Richard H. Coll, diretta da Leo Ursini.
Cast: Ira Rubin (Murray), Sam De Fazio (Joe), Andrea Martin (la sposa), Catherine Scorsese (la madre), Robert Uricola, Bernard Weosberger, Victor Magnotta, Richard Sweeton, John Bivona, Mardik Martin, Richard H. Coll, Martin Scorsese, e con Susan Miller, Sidney Anne Seide, Vivian Thompson, Cynthia Koenig, Lorraine Brennan (le ragazze del numero musicale "Love Is a Gazelle").
Production company: New York University Department of Television, Motion Picture and Radio Presentations.
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