In both Martin Scorsese & Harvey Keitel feature debut, a Little Italy tough guy (Harvey Keitel) with a good-girl hang-up falls for an arty blonde (Zina Bethune).

"Makes it seem like a fresh, and certainly very real experience. I believed absolutely every frame of film, and I don't do that too often." - Bernard Drew, Gannett News Service

"As a film, it has something to say to everyone. As a technical achievement, it brings together two opposing worlds of American cinema." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times