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
Edited by	Amy Jones Bert Lovitt
Distributed by	New Empire Films
Release dates	1978 (1978)
Running time	55 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$155,000^[1]

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 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 his screenplay for Pulp Fiction. Prince also tells a story about his days working at a gas station, and having to shoot a man he caught stealing tires, after the man pulled out a knife and tried to attack him. This story was retold in the Richard Linklater film Waking Life.

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

A sequel, American Prince, was released in 2009 and was directed by Tommy Pallotta.

References

↑ "American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978)". imdb.com. Retrieved 2006-12-03.

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Martin Scorsese filmography

Feature films	Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967) Boxcar Bertha (1972) Mean Streets (1973) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) Taxi Driver (1976) New York, New York (1977) 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 (segment "Life Lessons", 1989) Goodfellas (1990) Cape Fear (1991) The Age of Innocence (1993) Casino (1995) Kundun (1997) Bringing Out the Dead (1999) Gangs of New York (2002) The Aviator (2004) The Departed (2006) Shutter Island (2010) Hugo (2011) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Silence (2016)

Short films	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) "Bad" (1987) Made in Milan (1990) The Key to Reserva (2007)

Television episodes	"Mirror, Mirror" (Amazing Stories, 1986) "Boardwalk Empire" (Boardwalk Empire, 2010)

Documentaries	Street Scenes (1970) Italianamerican (1974) American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978) The Last Waltz (1978) A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) My Voyage to Italy (1999) The Blues: Feel Like Going Home (2003) No Direction Home (2005) Shine a Light (2008) A Letter to Elia (2010) Public Speaking (2010) George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011) The 50 Year Argument (2014)

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