The Purple Taxi is a 1977

1977 in film

The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....

 French-Irish-Italian film directed by Yves Boisset

Yves Boisset

Yves Boisset is a French film director and scriptwriter.French director Yves Boisset began his career as an assistant director. After working with such directors as Hossein, Cioampi and Clement, he began directing short films until the late 1960s when he made his feature film debut...

, based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Michel Déon

Michel Déon

Michel Déon is a French writer.With Antoine Blondin, Jacques Laurent and Roger Nimier, he belonged to the literary group of the Hussards. He is a novelist as well as a literary columnist....

. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival

1977 Cannes Film Festival

The 30th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 13-27. A new non-competitive section, 'Le Passé composé', is held at this festival only and focuses on compilations.- Jury :*Roberto Rossellini *N'Sougan Agblemagnon...

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The film is about a group of emotionally troubled expatriates living in a self-imposed exile in a small village (Eyeries

Eyeries

Eyeries is a village and townland on the Beara Peninsula in County Cork, Ireland overlooking Coulagh Bay and the mouth of the Kenmare River in the south-west. It lies at the base of Maulin, which, at , is the highest peak in the Slieve Miskish mountain range that forms part of the backbone of the...

) in Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

. The cast includes Peter Ustinov

Peter Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...

, Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...

, Philippe Noiret

Philippe Noiret

Philippe Noiret was a French film actor.-Biography:Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study...

, Edward Albert

Edward Albert

Edward Albert was an American film and television actor. He was also known as Edward Laurence Albert, Laurence Edward Albert and occasionally Eddie Albert, Jr.-Early life:Albert was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, to actor Eddie...

 and, somewhat eccentrically cast as a small-town Irish physician, Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...

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The film's score was performed by The Chieftains

The Chieftains

The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...

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Cast

• Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...
  
   - Sharon Frederick
• Philippe Noiret
  Philippe Noiret
  Philippe Noiret was a French film actor.-Biography:Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study...
  
   - Philippe Marcal
• Peter Ustinov
  Peter Ustinov
  Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...
  
   - Taubleman
• Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire
  Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...
  
   - Dr. Seamus Scully
• Edward Albert
  Edward Albert
  Edward Albert was an American film and television actor. He was also known as Edward Laurence Albert, Laurence Edward Albert and occasionally Eddie Albert, Jr.-Early life:Albert was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, to actor Eddie...
  
   - Jerry
• Agostina Belli
  Agostina Belli
  Agostina Belli is an Italian film actress. She has appeared in over 50 films since 1968. She was born in Milan, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Bandits in Milan * The Seduction of Mimi * Revolver...
  
   - Anne Taubelman
• Jack Watson
  Jack Watson (actor)
  Jack Watson , was an English actor who appeared in many British films and television dramas from the 1950s onwards....
  
   - Sean
• Mairin D. O'Sullivan - Colleen
• David Kelly
  David Kelly (actor)
  David Kelly is an Irish actor, who has been in regular film and television work since the 1950s.-Acting career:Playing everything from Beckett to Shakespeare, he has appeared in Theatre, TV and film constantly since 1959...
  
   - Little Person
• Niall Buggy
  Niall Buggy
  Niall Buggy is an Irish actor who has worked extensively on the stage and screen in Ireland, the UK and the US. Some of his more well known roles include the lead in Brian Friel's, Uncle Vanya, for which he won an Irish Theatre Award and an Olivier Award for Dead Funny...
  
   - Little Person
• May Cluskey - (as May Clusky)
• Loan Do Huu - Madame Li
• Brendon Doyle
• Michael Duffy
  Michael Duffy
  Michael Duffy is the name of:*Michael Duffy , Australian crime novelist, radio presenter and newspaper writer*Michael Duffy , Australian politician*Michael Duffy , British historian...
  
  
• Derek Lord
  Derek Lord
  Derek Lord in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, is an Irish actor. He is best known for playing Davie Sneddon in Take the High Road.- Filmography:*A Shot at Glory as Stephen O’Shea*The Yugoslav Hitman as Nikola Štedul...