This is a moderately entertaining crime drama starring Brian Donlevy as a federal agent who becomes cab driver and finds a counterfeiting racket going on within the industry. Some good lines make this fairly amusing, but it has a sense of familiarity to it that makes it rather pedestrian and predictable. Frances Drake is a rather cold leading lady named "Gilda" (giving the indication that she's somehow involved in the racket behind the scenes) while such character actors like Alan Dinehart, Sig Ruman and Lon Chaney Jr. (in an early role made before he became a "B" horror icon) are among the villains. Even at just over 70 minutes, this seems to go on just a bit too long. Action on the roads and waterways helps speed things up a little, but ultimately, this is one racket movie too many that I've had to endure, and unfortunately, there has been a lot better.
Review of Midnight Taxi
