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It's Not Just You, Murray! 1964 17m Drama List Reviews This inventive, award-winning student film pays tongue-in-cheek homage to the classic gangster movie via a portrait of a...
- Drama
- Ira Rubin
- Martin Scorsese
- New York University (NYU)
"It's Not Just You, Murray!" is an American 15-minute black-and-white short film from 1964, so this one is already over 50 years old now. And it is the third filmmaking effort by Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese who was still in his early 20s when he wrote and directed this one.
Directed by Martin Scorsese. Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it he talks about how much of his success and happiness is due to the support of his “friend” Joe.
- (6.2K)
- Tisch School of The Arts (NYU)
- Martin Scorsese
It’s Not Just You, Murray!, completed in 1964, is a much more ambitious film. It tells the story of a pair of Italian-American gansters. “The two characters, Murray and Joe,” Scorsese tells Michael Henry Wilson in Scorsese on Scorsese, “are close friends, but the sort who are constantly stealing from each other, pinching their whisky ...
- Martin Scorsese
It's Not Just You, Murray!: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Ira Rubin, Sam DeFazio, Andrea Martin, Catherine Scorsese. Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger, and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential.
- (2.1K)
- Short, Comedy, Crime
- Martin Scorsese
- 1964-02
This is twice as long as Scorsese’s previous short film, but it’s no less frenetic or experimental. The titular Murray, a naive mobster (is this technically his first mob film?), recounts stories of his life, all the while seemingly unaware that his best friend Joe has been having an affair with his wife.
Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it he talks about how much of his success and happiness is due to the support of his "friend" Joe.
