I Call First

"Mean Streets was just around the corner."

Sep 13 1968 R 1h 30m
Drama, Romance

A Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.

Plot

J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic guilt than Scorsese's later work, we see what happens to J.R. when his religious guilt catches up with him.

Written by

Martin Scorsese, Betzi Manoogian

Directed by

Martin Scorsese

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Trimod Films

Languages

English

Awards

1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
10,438
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
63
Popularity
NA