This gritty film followed Scorsese""s two earlier feature films, includingWho""s That Knocking at My Door (1967)(also with Harvey Keitel that explored similar hemes), and the sexy and violent Depression-Era crime thrillerBoxcar Bertha (1972), produced by Roger Corman." Later, the scheming Crassus told Glabrus that he had corruptly acquired the military appointment without his rival Gracchus"" knowledge by buying off other Senators: ("I fought fire with oil.Excited friends from another vehicle call over to him: "Come on! The whole gang""s going over!" Impulsively, Jim taps his feet to the beat of the martial music - the militarism is contagious." At her apartment door, she asks Sidney to tell her brother: "Tell him for me that Steve is the first real man I""ve ever been in love with.