Here's something you dont see too often, an unfaded copy of Taxi Driver. Every one i have seen come up for sale has fade, many completely red. The print is pretty good but, as i remember the Bill Davidson review very well, these all had that dull grainy look to them which, in this case, adds to the atmosphere of the dirty, filthy streets of New York in the 70s. The condition of the print is also pretty good with only a few light black lines which ,with another run of film guard next viewing, should clean up pretty well. The sound is good, not quite as good as most of the Columbia prints, but still very good.

Here is the plot edited to this version,
Travis Bickle, a 26-year-old honourably discharged U.S. Marine, is a lonely, depressed young man living on his own in New York City. He takes a job as a taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia, driving passengers every night around the city's boroughs
Travis is disgusted by the sleaze, dysfunction, and prostitution that he witnesses throughout the city, and attempts to find an outlet for his frustrations by beginning a program of intense physical training.
Travis meets an illegal gun dealer, Easy Andy, (Steven Prince, from whom Travis buys a number of handguns. At home, Travis practices drawing his weapons and constructs a sleeve gun to hide and then quickly deploy a gun from his sleeve.
Travis hires Iris, An adolescent prostitute and runaway but instead of having sex with her, attempts to dissuade her from continuing in prostitution. He fails to completely turn her from her course, but she does tell him how much it means to her.
After shaving his head into a Mohawk, Travis goes to the East Village to invade Sport's, (Harvey Keitel), brothel. A violent gunfight ensues, and Travis kills Sport, a bouncer, and a Mafioso. Travis is severely injured with multiple gunshot wounds. Iris witnesses the fight and, hysterical with fear, pleads with Travis to stop the killing. After the gunfight, Travis attempts suicide, but has run out of ammunition and resigns himself to lying on a sofa until police arrive. When they do, he places his index finger against his temple pantomiming the act of shooting himself.
The conclusion is the voice of Iris’s parents reading a letter sent by them to Travis thanking him for rescuing there Daughter with the camera panning across newspaper cuttings of “The taxi driver hereo”.
Here this condensed version ends.
This has to be one of the most violent 400ft reels released on Super 8, but it is a great reel and if you can find one with no fade then grab it if you don’t already have it.
Sorry the screenshots are not brilliant, they certainly do not do this reel any justice, but you get the idea,

Mine is okay, but some of your pics look better

thats good Vidar, there must be a low fade batch out there somewhere.

Great review Tom and I like the screenshots of your print and Vidar. I've avoided most copies I've come across due to the color fading. Looks like there's hope for finding a good copy one day. I have to ask,is the dreaded Columbia narrator present on this digest?

Hello Douglas, unfortunately he his in there,
There is a short introduction about a minute in, and a short piece in the middle when he takes Iris to the hotel room but thats it. It isn't too intrusive and ,in my view anyway, doesn't spoil this cut down.