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- Received top award at Cannes Film Festival in 1976
- Bernard Hermann completed the score and died the day after directing the orchestra’s recording of it
- In preparing for the film, De Niro spent time working as a New York cab driver
- Many of Scorsese’s protagonists are unattractive, but Travis Bickle is an outright psychotic loosely modeled on the would-be assassin of Governor George Wallace. Bickle ironically served as the inspiration to would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan, John Hinc