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Taxi, Mister (1943)

Taxi, Mister poster
Directed by
Kurt Neumann
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
46 min
Rating
4.2 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of Brooklyn taxi drivers get into a series of silly situations and misunderstandings. The film follows their antics as they try to navigate work and social life in 1940s New York.

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What happens

Taxi, Mister is a 1943 American comedy film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Earle Snell and Clarence Marks. The film stars William Bendix, Grace Bradley, Joe Sawyer, Sheldon Leonard, Joe Devlin, Jack Norton, Frank Faylen, Mike Mazurki, Sig Arno, Clyde Fillmore, Jimmy Conlin, Lew Kelly and Iris Adrian. The film was released on April 16, 1943, by United Artists. This was the third and last of the so-called Taxi Comedies series, which featured Bendix, Sawyer, and Bradley playing the same characters. The first two films were Brooklyn Orchid and The McGuerins from Brooklyn. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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