CountVolpe
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Post by CountVolpe on Jun 15, 2023 7:45:32 GMT
Witness In The City (1959)Cab driver Lambert witnesses a murder and is subsequently being chased through the streets of Paris by the murderer.
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Post by Old Aussie on Jun 15, 2023 12:40:30 GMT
Bert and Ernie, George's best friends.
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Post by timshelboy on Jun 15, 2023 22:43:28 GMT
In the underrated romantic comedy Crossing Delancey, a largely accurate portrait of NYC in the 1980s, Izzy (Amy Irving) is desperate to get to a particular destination in a hurry, but finds herself at the mercy of a cab driver who is apparently learning how to drive as he goes along, with the help of his wife/girlfriend reading multiple choice quiz questions from a drivers' manual as they drive. A weird little sequence, but so New Yawk. They should have made a sequel with what was going on with that couple. I'll second CROSSING DELANCEY - out of the rut Romcom. Amy Irving;s keeper
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 16, 2023 11:39:20 GMT
DARK PASSAGE Cabbie Sam (Tom D’Andrea) knows a doctor that can fix up Bogie’s face real good. Excellent. He belongs on that list of indispensable cabbies you don't find anymore: sympathetic, understanding and knowing just the right person to see to get whatever a fare needs.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jun 16, 2023 11:54:14 GMT
Good one! And let's not leave out Leo Gorcey, who had a smaller role as a cab driver. He's the one who takes Caesar and Adams to the hardware store. When Caesar pays him and says, " Keep the change, but wait for us," Gorcey responds with a broadly sarcastic, "Ohhh, sure." Doghouse, of all the times I’ve watched this movie I never knew that was Leo Gorcey!! Of all the legendary comedic faces in the film, he's among the easiest to miss. I think he's visible in only one exterior longshot, through the car's windshield.
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 16, 2023 13:54:33 GMT
Quick trivia question: What did Gorcey have in common with Adolf Hitler and Gandhi?
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 16, 2023 14:24:35 GMT
They were all originally on, but then erased from, the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover.
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Post by marianne48 on Jun 16, 2023 15:29:55 GMT
They were all originally on, but then erased from, the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover. Yep. Gandhi was removed so as not to offend the Indian market; Hitler was removed because...well, yecch. Gorcey demanded $500 for the use of his likeness, so he was erased, and Huntz Hall is the lone Bowery Boy on the cover.
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Post by london777 on Jun 19, 2023 15:45:53 GMT
In Top Hat (1935) dir: Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire hijacks a hansom cab to abduct and woo Ginger Rogers, who has been hitherto avoiding him.
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Post by Prime etc. on Jun 19, 2023 17:39:01 GMT
Don Siegel in Invasions of the Body Snatchers 1978 was memorable.
"Type H, repeat, type H."
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 30, 2023 3:05:09 GMT
Mentioned over at the Brit Noir thread, Passport to Shame (1958). London cabs and cabbies play a significant role in this excellent drama... Eddie Constantine in his first English language film stars as Canadian cab drive Johnny McVey The model featured is the 1958 Austin FX3 Taxi, here the driver is Mike (Robert Brown) close friend of Johnny.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 13, 2023 21:11:19 GMT
Robert Duvall and Steve McQueen in Bullitt (1968).
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 14, 2023 7:14:22 GMT
Taxi (1932), starring James Cagney as a cabbie in love with Loretta Young. This is one of two films where Cagney speaks Yiddish
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