Starring: Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Adrienne Posta, Liz Fraser, Stephen Lewis, Ian Lavender, Angela Scoular, Brian Wilde, Robert Lindsay, Diana Dors, Henry McGee
Directed by: Stanley Long
Barry Evans (who would ironically live his last years driving taxis after a succesful career as a British-sitcom star) plays Joe North, a taxi driver in London who is the subject of the adventure. There's no real plot, just him getting into all sorts of sexual situations with women of varying degrees of beauty. We see him talking into the camera to the audience about his plans to woo the women he meets into having sexual encounters with him.
Evans is pretty good, about the same as Christopher Neil would be in the next two films. Stephen Lewis (Inspector Blakey of "On The Buses" fame) has a small role as a doorman in a strip club. The aging Diana Dors plays Joe's mother. An O.K. timewatcher, but it's quite titalating at times (talky too). Bravo (The Canadian version) loves showing these 70's British sex comedies; they've shown three "Adventures" movies.
viewer's comments:
- Crazy Taxi!
There is a video game from Sega called Crazy Taxi, in which you drove a taxi all over a city in a haphazard matter to earn bigger money and tips from your fares. But that game pales in comparision to this movie, the true "Crazy Taxi".
Barry Evans (who would ironically live his last years driving taxis after a succesful career as a British-sitcom star) plays Joe North, a taxi driver in London who is the subject of the adventure. There's no real plot, just him getting into all sorts of sexual situations with women of varying degrees of beauty. We see him talking into the camera to the audience about his plans to woo the women he meets into having sexual encounters with him.
Evans is pretty good, about the same as Christopher Neil would be in the next two films. Stephen Lewis (Inspector Blakey of "On The Buses" fame) has a small role as a doorman in a strip club. The aging Diana Dors plays Joe's mother. An O.K. timewatcher, but it's quite titalating at times (talky too). Bravo (The Canadian version) loves showing these 70's British sex comedies; they've shown three "Adventures" movies.
For some reason, they borrowed a bit of Sesame Street's theme song's music to create theirs.
- A classic of the genre
British Sex Comedies of the 1970s have always taken a bad rap, somewhat unfairly.
What people don't realise is that beyond the 'slapstick' humour and chauvinistic 'sexual titiliation' there are intelligent and amusing subplots and sidelines that work on oh so many different levels.
Try appreciating this film, and others like it, from an analytical and intellectual perspective, and you'll begin to pick up on some of the subtle ironies and trademarks of the genre.
See beyond the characters: the taxi driver is actually representive of all of us, his taxi the vehicle that conveys us through our lives, picking up and dropping off other people along the way. The sexual encounters represent the continuous cycle of human reproduction. The kidnapping and the final twist show that everything in life comes full circle.
This is far better than the inferior 'Taxi Driver' film, also made in 1976, with which it is often unfortunately confused.
Barry Evans (I) .... Joe North
Judy Geeson .... Nikki
Adrienne Posta .... Carol
Robert Lindsay (II) .... Tom
Liz Fraser .... Maisie
Diana Dors .... Mrs. North
Anna Bergman .... Helga
Stephen Lewis (I) .... Doorman
Ian Lavender (I) .... Ronald
Henry McGee .... Inspector Rogers
Stephen Riddle .... Bunny McQueen
Brian Wilde .... Harold
David Auker .... 2nd kidnapper
Angela Scoular .... Marion
Beatrice Shaw .... Nun
Runtime: 89 min
Country: UK
Language: English
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