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Martin Scorsese
American film director Martin Scorsese, 2008.
Martin Scorsese’s first theatrical feature film was Who’s That Knocking at My Door, released in 1967.12
The film served as an intimate portrayal of life in the streets of Little Italy in Manhattan and starred Harvey Keitel as a streetwise, sensitive Italian American Catholic. While Scorsese had previously directed various student films, this production marked his entry into theatrical feature filmmaking.1