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MEAN STREETS. Martin Scorsese's kinetic memoir of growing up in New York's Little Italy. A movie with perspective, compassion, some good actors (Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel) and a lot of street smarts...
...them (Robert De Niro) is maniacally and inexplicably self-destructive, running up huge gambling debts and refusing to pay them. His friend Charlie (Harvey Keitel), who guarantees the loans, becomes simultaneously anxious and guilty, not only about this relationship but about life in general. He is anxious because he hopes to rise in the Mob and cannot afford to have a lot of blood spilled on his turf. He is guilty because he believes in Catholic hellfire. These hang-ups also cause him to behave abominably to his girl (Amy Robinson), who is smart and pretty but no hit with...
CHARLIE, the central figure in Streets, is a mob underling who collects "payments" for his uncle, the local boss. Harvey Keitel's countenance has the tight-bunched look of Charles Bronson, but it is more than tough. The face shows weathered tension burying pure fear. You see him first kneeling at the altar, dwarfed in the dizzying bowels of the Catholic church. It is after confession, and Charlie is clealy no ordinary sinner, looking grimly pained as he repeats his dozen Hail Marys. The interior monologue begins: "They're just words, it's all bullshit...
Drawing heavily on his boyhood in an Italian neighborhood in New York City, Scorsese has constructed a loose narrative about a jobless adolescent named J.R. (Harvey Keitel) and a wispy, enigmatic girl (Zina Bethune). J.R. moves in a world where Cadillacs park conspicuously in front of tenements and the guy taking his grandchildren down to the corner for a lemon ice is the No. 1 professional murderer on the East Coast...
...brick forecourt of Berlin's Spandau Prison. They were the senior survivors of the 22 Nazis brought to trial for major war crimes at Nürnberg. Their compatriots in crime-among them Luftwaffe Boss Hermann Göring and Wehrmacht Chief Wilhelrn Keitel-had escaped imprisonment by either suicide or the noose...