The setting is Austria in the late 1930""s just before the annexation of Austria with Nazi Germany:Salzburg, Austria, in the last Golden Days of the Thirties.] Although the popular song had no relation to the movie, its concurrent release and rampant play on the radio helped to create market recognition.Prologue:A light-colored station wagon drives through the fog up to an old, dusty baroque mansion.The inside of the enormous luxurious chateau is disheveled and messy, showing evidence of the previous night""s party/orgy.]Taxi Driverhas been acknowledged as consciously influenced by John Ford""sThe Searchers (1956)- he story of another angry war veteran and social outcast who becomes obsessed during a search and rescue of his young niece from a long-haired Comanche chief named Scar.The next little bastard comes near my farm, I""m gonna blow your f--kin"" brains out."Some of the other patients were introduced:obnoxious, pushy, sloppy and obese chocolate bar-eating orphan Joey Burns (Dominick Brascia)headphone-wearing, goth-dressed, rebellious punk-rocker Violet (Tiffany Helm)Violet""s quiet red-headed friend Robin (Juliette Cummins)strongly buffed, angry, short-haired axe-chopping Vic (Mark Venturini)Joey frustrated Violet and Robin by touching their clean laundry with his pudgy chocolate-covered fingers.