Cab No. 13 (1926)
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.
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Lili Damita as Lilian |
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Jack Trevor as François Tapin |
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Paul Biensfeldt as Jacques Carotin |
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Walter Rilla as Lucien Rebout |
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Max Gülstorff as L'antiquaire |
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Valeska Stock as Mme Coco |
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Sophie Pagay as Linotte |
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Albert Paulig as Le maître de ballet |
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Carl Ebert as Henri Landon |
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Hermann Picha as Monsieur Coco |
| Directing | Michael Curtiz | Director |
| Production | Arnold Pressburger | Producer |
| Camera | Gustav Ucicky | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Alfred Schirokauer | Writer |
| Writing | Xavier de Montépin | Novel |
| Art | Paul Leni | Art Direction |
| Sound | Willy Schmidt-Gentner | Music |
| Camera | Eduard von Borsody | Director of Photography |
| Production | Alexander Graf Kolowrat | Producer |
