Sick, venal.Someday a real rain""ll come and wash all this scum off the streets.I go all over.I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take ""em to Harlem.I don""t care.Don""t make no difference to me.It does to some.Some won""t even take spooks.Don""t make no difference to me.One of his late-night passengers/fares he ferries to 48th and 6th Street is an executive-type businessman [who looks remarkably identical to presidential candidate Palantine (Leonard Harris) in he first of two rides in Travis"" cab] accompanied by a black hooker (Copper Cunningham) in a long blond wig.He had another disturbing vision of deceased Captain Stacy in the crowd behind Gwen""s family, and imagined him urging again as he died: "You""re gonna make enemies.In addition to this film, dozens of other adaptations have been made of the Frankenstein horror story, notably from the UK""s Hammer Studios (from the late 50s to the mid-1970s), and lots of other variations such asAbbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), AIP""sI Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957),Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965), Mel Brooks""Young Frankenstein (1974)(shot in the same castle set and with he same props and lab equipment as the original film), andFrankenhooker (1990):Frankenstein (1910), d.Friends had given me several addresses in Ramsdale where lodgings were available for the summer.In the host""s white-picket fenced home in Ramsdale, Humbert is escorted on a guided tour of the suburban house by a matronly-looking, boorish, wealthy widow Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters).]Actor James Dean was electrifying and raw in the film as a "method" actor, similar to his contemporary Marlon Brando - however, Dean was more representative of non-conformist, anguished and introspective youth in the conservative and oppressive 1950s era than Brando.