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Carry On Cabby (1963) was a Adventure - Comedy Film directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers.

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Carry On #7: Carry On Cabby

By Virginie Pronovost on Oct 7, 2019 From The Wonderful World of Cinema

We’ve already been through a week of Carry On films! To end this in beauty, we’re back with a more simple film of the series, leaving the colour of Carry On Cruising behind, with Carry On Cabby. Released in 1963, Carry On Cabby had the particularity to have a new screenwriter, Talbot Rot... Read full article


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[Charlie goes to the Glamcabs office and discovers who "Mrs Glam" really is]
Charlie Hawkins: You! So that's it. Gor blimey. What a mug I've been.
Peggy Hawkins: Charlie, please, I know what you're thinking.
Charlie Hawkins: Good, then it saves telling you, Mrs Glam!


Expectant Father: Are you a taxi?
Charlie Hawkins: No.
[pointing at the vehicle]
Charlie Hawkins: *This* is a taxi.
[pointing at himself]
Charlie Hawkins: *I'm* a driver.
[pointing at Pintpot]
Charlie Hawkins: *He's* a learner.
[pointing at the expectant father]
Charlie Hawkins: And *you're* a twit. Now get out of the way, I'm in a hurry.
Expectant Father: No, no, you must help me. It's my wife - she's going to have a baby.
Charlie Hawkins: And if I don't get home by seven, mine's gonna have a fit.


Charlie Hawkins: When you get to be a cab driver you cut yourself right off from the rest of the human race. Everybody's got it in for you and nobody loves you. In no time at all you find that you're about as popular as a wickerwork seat in a nudist camp, and you know what sort of impression that makes on people.


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Charles Hawtrey was unable to drive, and was given lessons by Pinewood studio staff.
The first film in the series to feature "Carry On..." regular Jim Dale.
Some of the film posters were sponsored by Ford who supplied the Glamcabs cars, registration numbers OWC 164 to OWC 170. The posters used the slogan "Britain's Newest Film Star - The new Consul Cortina Super - The small car with the big difference".
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