Mean Streets

© Park Circus / Warner Bros.

Park Circus / Warner Bros.

These are scenes from his own youth, marked by violence, which Martin Scorsese has processed here: "The film is about that American dream, according to which everyone thinks they can get very rich very quickly; and if they can't do it legally, then they do it illegally ..." An anthropological treatise on life in Little Italy, as it were, an early masterpiece.
Running time: 111 minutes
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Country/Year: USA/1973
Cast members: Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Amy Robinson, Victor Argo, Robert Carradine, David Carradine, Martin Scorsese