It's crazy - those tired taxi drivers

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Movie
German title It's crazy - those tired taxi drivers
Original title Carry on Cabby
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1963
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Gerald Thomas
script Talbot Rothwell
production Peter Rogers
music Eric Rogers
camera Alan Hume
cut Archie Ludski
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It's crazy - These tired taxi drivers ( The noise is coming too ) is the seventh film from the Carry-On film series .

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Charlie Hawkins is married twice. On the one hand with his wife Peggy, on the other hand with his taxi company Speedee Cabs . Unfortunately, the workaholic neglects his real wife and dedicates himself primarily to his company, where his buddy Ted Watson and several other drivers work for him.

When things get too colorful, Peggy decides to start her own company with Ted's friend Sally: Glam Cabs . Since Charlie hardly spends any money and transfers all of the company's profits to Peggy's account, she has the necessary start-up capital. After a short time, Glam Cabs has achieved supremacy and the Speedee Cabs drivers hardly get any more jobs.

Glam Cabs' concept is as simple as it is successful: only new vehicles, only driven by attractive women. Of course, Peggy and Sally don't tell their husbands that they are behind the rival company; Peggy just announced to Charlie that she was looking for a job. Charlie also doesn't get a chance to ask: When he gets up, Peggy will be out of the house and when she comes back he'll be asleep.

The competition between the two taxi companies goes as far as sabotage, but the customers remain loyal to the glam cabs . When Charlie is about to give up in view of the impending bankruptcy, Peggy and her assistant Sally are ambushed while taking away the daily income. Your call for help over the radio is picked up by Charlie and Ted, of all people, who then organize a chase with the taxi fleet, at the end of which the gangsters are caught and it turns out that Peggy is pregnant. The film ends in a conciliatory way.

useful information

  • The very first film in the series with actor Jim Dale , who later became one of the standard cast of the films. It was also the first film without Kenneth Williams , who then did not appear in only two of a total of 29 films in the series.
  • This Tired Taxi Driver is the first film in the series that was no longer written by Norman Hudis but by Talbot Rothwell . Many humorous passages were complemented by a warm love story.
  • The film was not originally supposed to appear in the Carry-on ... series, which is why the working title was first Call Me a Cab , and later Carry On Taxi .
  • Most Speedee Cabs are Austin FX3s . Charlie's first car (registration number PEG 1 ) is an Austin 12 .
  • The film was shot from March to May 1963.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" . Extended new edition. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 410
  2. ^ "Lexicon of International Films" (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997