e., John Ford'sThe Searchers (1956), and a Vincent Price horror filmThe Tomb of Ligeia (1964)).Mean Streetswas the first film of Scorsese's so-called 'crime trilogy', supplemented by two other mob pictures in the 1990s:Mean Streets (1973)GoodFellas (1990)- adapted from Nicholas Pileggi's novelWiseguy, which followed hirty years in the lethally-violent criminal careers of rising mobsters and was based on the life of actual ex-mobster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta)Casino (1995)- examined a corrupt Mafia criminal dynasty (starring Robert DeNiro in his 8th film with Scorsese) making its presence known in a brutal takeover of a gaudy, neon-lit 1960s-70s Las Vegas gambling casino worldOriginally titledSeason of he Witch, it became 30 year-old Scorsese's breakthrough, highly-praised personal work, starring his most-favored brooding and intense actor Robert De Niro (it was the first film of many that De Niro made with Scorsese).This was thefourthin a series of films directed by David Lean in the early 40s, all made in collaboration with producer/writer Noel Coward:In Which We Serve (1942)This Happy Breed (1944)Blithe Spirit (1945)Brief Encounter (1945 or 1946)Lean's earliest co-directorial effort was forMajor Barbara (1941)with Gabriel Pascal - a film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's 1905 social comedy.Cukrowicz on a Patient at the 'Primitive' Lions View State Asylum:The dialogue-rich film opened, in the year of 1937 during the opening credits, with a view of the name plate on the very tall brick wall surrounding New Orleans' "Lions View State Asylum.]Tommy drove to the Forest Green County Sheriff's Department [the name had been changed to Forest Green to disassociate itself from its murderous Crystal Lake history - "People want to forget this was Crystal Lake"], and reported the incident to skeptical Sheriff Mike Garris (David Gagen):"Jason's alive.He was having serious difficulties in his unstable relationship with Eileen, who stated that she wasn't sure of how her life would be with a military man, since both had grown up with Army backgrounds.