Apart from his first actual feature, Who's That Knocking at My Door, and a directing project given him by early independent maverick Roger Corman, Boxcar Bertha, this was Scorsese's first feature film of his own design.
Corman offered the film to Kaplan on the recommendation of Martin Scorsese, who had recently made Boxcar Bertha for Corman and had taught Kaplan at New York University.
Bertha | Bertha von Suttner | Bertha of Bingen | Bertha Krupp | Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar | Boxcar Willie | Boxcar Bertha | Bertha Palmer | Bertha Knight Landes | The Boxcar Children | Big Bertha (howitzer) | Big Bertha | Bertha Wellin | Bertha Sánchez | Bertha Runkle | Bertha Merrill Holt | Bertha Lum | Bertha Lewis | Bertha Jaques | Bertha Jane Grundy | Bertha Gifford | Bertha, daughter of Lothair II | Bertha Damon | Bertha "B" Holt |