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.
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Scorsese changed the title from Season of the Witch to Mean Streets, a reference to Raymond Chandler's essay "The Simple Art of Murder", wherein Chandler writes, "But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."
The Marvelettes' version appears in a bar fight scene in Mean Streets (1973), directed by Martin Scorsese.
The Streets of San Francisco | Streets of Fire | Mean Streets | Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets | The Streets | Wild in the Streets | Streets of Philadelphia | Streets of Laredo | Savage Streets | Down These Mean Streets | True Crime: Streets of LA | Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 | Mean Streets (Bernice Summerfield) | Brooklyn streets | Wide Streets Commission | U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets | The Streets of Ankh-Morpork | Terror on the Streets | Takin' It to the Streets (The Doobie Brothers album) | Takin' It To The Streets | Strictly 4 da Streets: Drugs Sex and Violence, Vol. 1 | Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six | Streets of Rage 2 | Streets of Rage | Side Streets | Safe Streets and Communities Act | Reclaim the Streets | NATO bombing of Belgrade streets | Forward Operating Base Super FOB commander explaining the paving process for one of the streets of ''Camp Super FOB'', which will be the largest training and operations base for the Afghan National Army |
Two of his best roles were as the neighborhood mafia Don, Giovanni Cappa, in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and as the corrupt town mayor, Carmine DePasto, in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).
The shop was seen in the film Serpico, in the thirteenth episode (Season One) of Law and Order (A Death in the Family) and very briefly in Mean Streets as well as The Brave One.
In 1984, Minion's script for After Hours was optioned by Griffin Dunne and Amy Robinson, the latter a former actress who'd appeared as Harvey Keitel's damaged girlfriend in Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973).
The other films so far selected from films produced in 1973 are: American Graffiti, Badlands, Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, Frank Film, Mean Streets and The Sting.
The other, Tek-Judge Goodwin, is found in the Chapter 6: Mean Streets mission, where the player has to evacuate him from the Charles Mansions Block.