50 years old and endlessly imitated, <i>Taxi Driver </i>still packs a fearsome punch. From the instant a yellow cab prowls through a cloud of steam, accompanied by the lush menace of Bernard Herrmann's score, Scorsese has you in his grasp. And of all the psychos, sociopaths, and screw-ups that Robert De Niro has played for the director, none is more iconic than Vietnam vet Travis Bickle, the cabbie on a self-appointed, obsessive mission to wash the scum off the streets of New York City, waylaid by an attempted romance with Cybill Shepherd's re-election campaigner Betsy, and chance encounters with Jodie Foster's Iris, a 12-year-old prostitute. CrimePT1H54M182026-07-17