Who's That Knocking at My Door, originally titled I Call First, is a 1967 drama film, which marks Martin Scorsese's debut as a director. Exploring themes of Catholic guilt similar to those in his later film Mean Streets, the story follows Italian-American J.R. as he struggles to accept the secret hidden by his girlfriend . It was the winner of the 1968 Chicago Film Festival. J.R. is a typical Italian-American young man on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides he wants to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot... handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic guilt than Scorsese's later work, we see what happens to J.R. when his religious guilt catches up with him. Who's That Knocking at My Door was filmed over the course of many years, undergoing many changes, new directions and different names along the way. The film began in 1965 as a student short film about J.R. and his do-nothing friends called Bring on the Dancing Girls. In 1967, the romance plot with Zina Bethune was introduced and spliced together with the earlier film, and the title was changed to I Call First.
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| Release date: | November 15, 1967 |
| Directed by: | Martin Scorsese |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 90 Minutes |
| Editor: | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| Screenplay by: | Martin Scorsese |
| Estimated budget: | $75,000 |