A defining crime drama of the 1970s, MEAN STREETS (1973) featured formative early work from two future AFI Life Achievement Award honorees – co-writer/director Martin Scorsese and star Robert De Niro. Visit the AFI Catalog to learn more about MEAN STREETS. Have Get The Picture delivered to your inbox every day. SIGN UP TO GET...

This October, the AFI Catalog celebrates the 50th anniversary of MEAN STREETS, which marked the first pairing of AFI Life Achievement Award recipients Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro in a breakthrough film that catapulted both careers and set a precedent for American independent filmmaking. Also featuring Harvey Keitel in one of his early starring...