Who is that knocking at my door

Zina Bethune Girl. Harvey Keitel J. Lennard Kuras Joey. Anne Collette Girl in Dream. Michael Scala Sally Gaga. Harry E. Northup Harry. Bill Minkin Iggy at Party. Susan Wood Girl at Party. Martin Scorsese Director. Martin Scorsese Screenwriter. Betzi Manoogian Producer. Haig Manoogian Producer. Joseph Weill Producer. View All Critic Reviews See Movies in Theaters. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie.

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Condor: Season 2. South Side: Season 2. What we hope for instead are small gains on the fronts of hope, love, comedy and tragedy. It is possible that with more experience and maturity Scorsese will direct more polished, finished films--but this work, completed when he was 25, contains a frankness he may have diluted by then. Staff Not Credited. In the aggressive self-confidence, the use of rock music, and the perceptive observation, Scorsese reveals an anthropological feel for street life and the attitudes of male adolescence, particularly how introversion and weakness are reserved for moments with the opposite sex, kept carefully apart from the mainstream of life.

This is the ultimate student film The film is a creative, ultra-low-budget effort with a good sense of place and character. Scorsese presents a detailed look at the lives of these confused boys struggling to become men in an oppressive environment. Vincent Canby. The director, who also wrote the original story and screenplay, hasn't succeeded in making a drama that is really much more aware than the characters themselves.

The result is a movie that is as precise—and as small—as a contact print. Scott Tobias. The film never jells, but it's the Rosetta Stone for Scorsese's later work. Zina Bethune, as the girl, is believable but Harvey Keitel, as the anti-hero, is alternatively boorish or bewildered. Scorsese occasionally brings the film to life Generally, however, his script and direction lack any dramatic value and give far too much exposure to sexual fantasies on the part of the boy.

User Score. Write a Review. User Reviews. Gamzguy17 Aug 21, Martin Scorsese's debut film has serious editing problems and it isn't exactly a showcase of his directing talents that he would later perfect, but 'Who's That Knocking at my Door? This film has some balls to exploit what was considered taboo and it does so with accompanying smart dialogue Scorsese wrote this too and some lovely landscapes. Gari23 Dec 31, Very good beginning from my favorite movie director.

It has incredible performances and a story that's simple, but effective. AndrewBurge Jan 9, In this world, still strongly under a repressive moral code, there are two kinds of girls: nice girls and broads.

You try to make the broads and you place the nice girls on an inaccessible, idealized pedestal. The hero of "Who's That Knocking" comes from this world but is not entirely of it. One day on the Staten Island ferry, he meets a nice girl, a blond, who is reading a French magazine. She's taking the ride for fun; something the young man cannot comprehend. They get into a conversation about John Wayne , and reading French, and what their ambitions are.

It is a marvelously acted scene, much of it shot in one take to retain continuity as the two people get over their embarrassment. The boy asks the girl for a date, and she accepts. We gradually understand that they come from different backgrounds. She is a college student, she reads books, she lives in her own apartment, she doesn't even have a TV! He is very much still a part of the neighborhood gang. We see him at two parties both directed by Scorsese with great improvisatory skill.

We see him sitting at the end of a bar with his friends, throwing nuts and looking the other way. We see him still inhabiting this world even though he falls in love with the girl from outside.

And then, eventually, when she tells him she isn't a virgin, he is unable to cope with this and he breaks it off. Scorsese is gifted at handling subtle moments, but he has some trouble with the more obvious ones. The girl claims she was raped, and a scene real?