Not that splendid Scorsese, Hershey and Carridane early work. Scorcese strips Hershey butt naked, and puts her to run in the end of the movie a very difficult railroad side.

Heavily mannered and stylised, this is perhaps better than it's given credit for. There's lots going on with class, race and gender issues and an excellent performance is drawn out of Barbara Hershey. Unfortunately it doesn't quite all seem to fit together as it might.

What was Marty thinking? If his intentions was to make a sleazy exploitation flick he succeeded plenty. The premise isn't bad - young girl becomes an orphan, hooks up with union activist and gets in troubles. But the way the story is handled is just terrible. Scorsese tries a few things with camera, but even that doesn't work. He did much better films even in his university years.

Not an auspicious debut for Scorsese, but it does have its moments. It deals honestly with unions and issues of class, and Hershey and Carradine both give good performances. A guilty confession: I even like the crucifixion scene. But then again, like Marty, I was raised Catholic.

Certainly not Scorsese's best film to date but I did enjoy it towards the end. The film is incredibly similar to Bonnie Clyde, but it isn't as good as that. I felt some of the performances in this film were lacking in euthasiam and emotion. Barbara Hersehy was pretty good and gave a good performances a runaway Bertha. David Carridine wasn't as good as let's say, his recent performance in Kill Bill. There are certainly early evidence os the usual Scorsese trademarks. Ganster/crime, Scorses