American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
Promotional poster (with Italianamerican)
Directed by	Martin Scorsese
Produced by	Bert Lovitt
Written by	Julia Cameron (treatment) Mardik Martin (treatment)
Starring	Steven Prince, Martin Scorsese, George Memmoli
Cinematography	Michael Chapman
Editing by	Thelma Schoonmaker
Distributed by	New Empire Films
Release date(s)	1978
Running time	55 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$155,000^[1]
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American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince is a 1978 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese. Its subject is Scorsese's friend Steven Prince, best known for his small role as Easy Andy, the gun salesman in Taxi Driver. Prince is a raconteur telling wild stories about his life as an ex-drug addict and a road manager for Neil Diamond. Scorsese intersperses home movies of Prince as a child as he talks about his family. When talking of his years as a heroin addict, Prince tells a story about injecting adrenaline into the heart of a woman who overdosed, with the help of a medical dictionary and a Magic Marker. This story was re-enacted by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction.

The Neil Young song "Time Fades Away" is featured during the film's opening credits.

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v • d • e Films directed by Martin Scorsese

1960s	What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1963) • It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964) • The Big Shave (1967) • Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967)

1970s	Street Scenes (1970) • Boxcar Bertha (1972) • Mean Streets (1973) • Italianamerican (1974) • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) • Taxi Driver (1976) • New York, New York (1977) • American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978) • The Last Waltz (1978)

1980s	Raging Bull (1980) • The King of Comedy (1983) • After Hours (1985) • The Color of Money (1986) • The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) • New York Stories (1989)

1990s	Goodfellas (1990) • Cape Fear (1991) • The Age of Innocence (1993) • Casino (1995) • A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) • Kundun (1997) • My Voyage to Italy (1999) • Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

2000s	Gangs of New York (2002) • The Blues (2003) • The Aviator (2004) • No Direction Home (2005) • The Departed (2006) • Shine a Light (2008) • Ashecliffe (2009)

Produced	You Can Count on Me (2000) • Nyfes (2004) • The Young Victoria (2008)

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