Monday, April 22, 2013

Wacky Taxi (1972)

Avco Embassy Pictures
Directed by Alexander Grasshoff and John Astin
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Saturn Productions)

John Astin from The Addams Family plays a poor factory worker in San Diego who quits his job to drive his own taxi. He buys a beat up Cadillac, gives it a homemade paint job with lettering and hits the streets. It's not nearly as easy as he thinks and he soon finds himself hustling sailors for cheap fares. Eventually the taxi is stolen and he starts drinking and contemplating returning to the factory. His kids help him find it and he becomes a successful businessman in the ludicrous ending. Bicycle Thieves it's not.

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