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Cab No. 13

Cab No. 13

MAR 6, 1926 · 78 MIN · DIR. MICHAEL CURTIZ

Drama

The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.

Cast

  • Lili Damita

    Lili Damita

    Lilian

  • Jack Trevor

    Jack Trevor

    François Tapin

  • Paul Biensfeldt

    Paul Biensfeldt

    Jacques Carotin

  • Walter Rilla

    Walter Rilla

    Lucien Rebout

  • Max Gülstorff

    Max Gülstorff

    L'antiquaire

  • Valeska Stock

    Mme Coco

  • Sophie Pagay

    Sophie Pagay

    Linotte

  • Albert Paulig

    Albert Paulig

    Le maître de ballet

  • Carl Ebert

    Henri Landon

  • Hermann Picha

    Hermann Picha

    Monsieur Coco

Crew

Writer

Alfred Schirokauer

Director of Photography

Gustav Ucicky

Director of Photography

Eduard von Borsody

Producer

Arnold Pressburger

Producer

Alexander Graf Kolowrat