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Columbia, a Division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Presents a Bill Phillips Production.

Director: Martin Scorsese. Screenplay: Paul Schrader. Producers: Michael Phillips end Julie Phillips. Cinematography: Michael Chapman. Supervising Film Editor: Marcia Lucas. Film Editors: Tom Rolf, A.C.E., Melvin Shapiro. Music: Bernard Herrmann.

Cast: Robert De Niro (Travis Bickle), Jodie Foster (Iris), Cybill Shepherd (Betsy), Harvey Keitel (Sport/Matthew), Albert Brooks (Tom), Peter Boyle (Wizard), Leonard Harris (Sen. Charles Palantine), Diahnne Abbott (Concession Girl), Steven Prince (Andy, the Gun Salesman), Frank Adu (Angry Black Man), Victor Argo (Melio), Victor Magnotta (Secret Service Photographer), Murray Moston (Iris's Timekeeper), Harry Northup (Doughboy), Peter Savage (the John), Robert Shields (Palantine's Aide), Robert Utt (Campaign Worker), Martin Scorsese (Passenger Watching Silhouette).

M.P.A.A. Rating: R.
Running Time: 113 minutes.
Awards: Palme D'Or (Grand Prize) 1976 Cannes Film Festival; Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Robert De Niro), and Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster)
Home Video: RCA/Columbia cassette and Criterion Collection laserdiscs (CAV and CLV formats.)

Synopsis: Cabdriver Travis Bickle, a Vietnam veteran with a tenuous hold on reality, is both attracted to and repulsed by the seamy New York City. Obsessed with Betsy, a campaign worker for presidential candidate Charles Palantine, the lonely cabbie asks her for a date. It ends in disaster when he takes her to a porno movie. Travis next turns his attention to Iris, a teenage prostitute he wants to rescue from the streets. He also makes an abortive attempt at shooting Palantine at a political rally. In the wake of this failure he goes after Iris's pimp Sport, whom he kills, along with several other pimps, in a bloody shootout. Iris is returned to her family and the newspapers hail Travis as a hero.

Copyright (c) 1992, David Ehrenstein