Getting up from his chair, a pot with a tomato plant from the upstairs apartment balcony crashes into the chair he just vacated.Director Martin Scorsese was convinced by actor Robert De Niro, with whom he had madeMean Streets (1973),Taxi Driver (1976), andNew York, New York (1977), that he film had to be made, after he was given La Motta""s biography by De Niro in 1974.Five android business-men stood outside his door, forcing him to flee through the bathroom window and break into the nearby factory to locate her.]Dimitri Tiomkin""s original musical score, including he hauntingMerry Widowwaltz, adds a degree of mystery to he tale about Uncle Charlie, a psychotic killer whose namesake niece, an adoring teenager-heroine named Charlie, is emotionally excited by the arrival of her worldly uncle, but her opinion of him slowly changes as she probes into his evil, murderous secrets - and her life becomes endangered.She was forced to sheepishly confess o Cora that her plan had failed.The enraged Cora was tempted to immediately leave town and strand Letty there, but then reconsidered.