Carry On Cabby
- Sidney James: Charlie Hawkins
- Hattie Jacques: Peggy Hawkins
- Charles Hawtrey Terry ' pint pot ' Tankard
- Kenneth Connor: Ted Watson
- Esma Cannon: Flo Sims
- Liz Fraser: Sally
- Bill Owen: Smiley
- Milo O'Shea: Len
- Renee Houston: Molly
- Jim Dale: expectant father
- Amanda Barrie: Anthea
- Judith Furse: Battleaxe
- Peter Gilmore: Dancy
Carry on - This weary taxi driver (also The crash comes after all) is the seventh film in the series of Carry-on ... movies.
Content
Charlie Hawkins is married twice. Firstly, with his wife Peggy, on the other hand with his taxi company Speedee Cabs. Unfortunately, the workaholic neglected his right woman and devoted primarily to his business where his buddy Ted Watson and several other drivers to work for him.
When it is too colorful Peggy, she decides to Ted's wife Sally to start your own business: Glam Cabs. After a short time Glam Cabs has gained the supremacy and the driver of Speedee Cabs hardly get more orders. Glam Cabs concept is as simple as successful: It is adjusted only attractive ladies. Of course, Peggy and Sally tell their men not assume that they are behind the rival company and various complications are programmed.
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The very first film in the series to actor Jim Dale, who belonged to the usual cast of the films later. It was also the first film without Kenneth Williams, who then not only participated in two other of a total of 29 possible films of the series.
This weary taxi driver is the first film in the series, for which no more Norman Hudis but Talbot Rothwell has written the screenplay. For the next 20 films he should be the author of the films. In the first of his films but you can tell not much of Anarcho humor with which you should join the series later. It was - as well as all six movies that Hudis had written to date for the series - a typical British comedy this time. Many humorous sites were complemented by a warm love story.
Originally, the film should not appear in the carry-on ... series, so was the working title also only Call Me a Cab, later Carry On taxi.
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Reviews
- " Change (...) lame taxi from hunts with lame jokes. " ( Rating: 1 out of 4 stars = weak) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz: Encyclopedia " Movies on TV ", 1990
- " Tailored to slapstick, scattered singing and comedy. " - Lexicon of international film