"Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)A sequel and a repeat story (with a greater and more expensive scale of special effects) by writer-director Steven Sommers (with most of the same crew), and many of the characters from the first film.The castaway was rushed from the harbor by carriage o Cadiz, Spain, to the royal palace of King Ferdinand (Sebastian Armesto).]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.Cooper) who in a mid-closeup shot raises her left hand against her forehead to shield her eyes from the sun.