What Price Taxi

This is one of the funniest of all the "taxi" movies I've seen with BILLY GILBERT fuming and fussing over what he imagines is his wife's dalliance with another man--FRANKLIN PANGBORN.

Pangborn merely stops by briefly to help Gilbert's wife and Gilbert is her jealous husband who returns home to find Pangborn and his wife together as Pangborn is about to leave. From then on, the laughs pile up as Pangborn and another unlucky individual find that they have to stay clear of hot-tempered Gilbert whenever he's within range, especially after he's thrown Pangborn out the window.

A wild ride through L.A.'s streets with a ladder stuck atop a car provides some wild stunts that are incredible to watch and involve lots of split timing in the best early comedy tradition.

Guaranteed to provide guffaws of laughter, it's well worth watching for Franklin Pangborn alone, who never had such a funny role in these kind of film shorts. And Gilbert gets his share of laughs too.