Adventures of a Taxi Driver is a 1976 British sex comedy film directed by Stanley Long and starring Barry Evans, Judy Geeson and Adrienne Posta. It was written by Suzanne Mercer and Long.
There are two sequels, Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) and Adventures of a Plumber's Mate (1978).
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Plot
Fed up with living at home with his annoying mother, taxi driver Joe North moves in with his mate Tom and his girlfriend, a stripper with a pet snake. The film details his adventures with a waitress, another stripper, a wealthy housewife, his fiancée, a group of pretend-kidnappers, a prostitute, a female impersonator, and the police.
Cast
Barry Evans as Joe North
Judy Geeson as Nikki
Adrienne Posta as Carol
Diana Dors as Mrs. North
Liz Fraser as Maisie
Ian Lavender as Ronald
Robert Lindsay as Tom
Jane Hayden as Linda
Stephen Lewis as doorman
Henry McGee as Inspector Rogers
Angela Scoular as Marion
Brian Wilde as Harold
Anna Bergman as Helga
Prudence Drage as Mrs De Vere Barker
Production
Long financed the film entirely himself and shot it on 16mm.
It was one of a number of British sex comedies featuring Diana Dors. The theme song "Cruisin' Casanova" was performed by Adrienne Posta.
Reception
Box office
The movie was a box office success. It was the 19th most successful film at the British box office in 1976.
Critical
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote "A crass, lobotomised production, with no discernible style, humour or purpose. Stanley Long draws irritatingly smug performances from Barry Evans, Judy Geeson and, particularly, Adrienne Posta; and his view of women and sex is more objectionable than that of the most passionless, clinical, primitively shot stag movie."
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: "Back in the 1970s, smutty comedies such as this were the order of the day for comedy actors trying to break into movies. Barry Evans, who came to prominence in the Doctor in the House TV series, plays a cabbie who moves away from his nagging family and enjoys a number of amorous encounters."