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Who's That Knocking at My Door is a american film of genre Drama directed by Martin Scorsese released in USA on 8 september 1969 with Harvey Keitel
Who's That Knocking at My Door (1969)
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Add to a movie listWho's That Knocking at My Door, originally titled I Call First, is a 1967 drama film, which marked Martin Scorsese's debut as a director and Harvey Keitel's debut as an actor. Exploring themes of Catholic guilt similar to those in his later film Mean Streets, the story follows Italian-American J.R. as he struggles to accept the secret hidden by his independent and free-spirited girlfriend.
This film was the winner of the 1968 Chicago Film Festival.
Synopsis
J.R. (Harvey Keitel) is a typical Catholic Italian-American young man on the streets of New York City. Even as an adult, he stays close to home with a core group of friends with whom he drinks and carouses around. He gets involved with a local girl (Zina Bethune) he meets on the Staten Island Ferry, and decides he wants to get married and settle down. As their relationship deepens, he declines her offer to have sex because he thinks she is a virgin and he wants to wait rather than "spoil" her.Actors
Harvey Keitel
(J.R.)
Zina Bethune
(Girl)
Harry Northup
(Harry)
Anne Collette
(Girl in Dream)
Catherine Scorsese
(Mother)
Martin Scorsese
(Gangster (uncredited))
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