Entertaining and important early works by an authentic American original.
I saw several of these titles as a grad film student at NYU while "Marty" was still there, and a student of Haig Manoogian, who shook his head in amazement at what Marty was able to pull off production-wise. 'Italian-American' (which I first saw at the NY Film Festival) is dedicated to him. Scorcese was already working on his feature 'I Hear You Knocking' while most of the rest of us were still coming to grips with the basics of editing. It's great to have these early works gathered together; in a way they're part of my own history.