| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm |
| Summary |
'Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is 26, a loner in the mean streets of New York City, slipping slowly into isolation and violent misanthropy. In solving his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the low-lifes that hang out at night: "Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." His touching attempts to woo Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a senator's campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris to desert her pimp and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the senator, heading for the infamy of a 'lone crazed gunman'. -- ABC website |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC2 broadcast May 31, 2008. Copied under Part Va of the Copyright Act |
| Credits |
Music, Bernard Herrmann ; writer, Paul Schrader ; producers, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips ; director, Martin Scorsese |
| Cast |
Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel |
| Notes |
Originally released in 1976 |
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DVD |
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Rated: MA |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Film noir
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Feature films -- United States
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Taxicab drivers -- New York -- Drama
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Drama
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| Author |
De Niro, Robert
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Scorsese, Martin
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Foster, Jodie
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Phillips, Michael, 1943-
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Phillips, Julia, 1944-
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ABC-TV (Australia)
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