Cab No. 13 (1926) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1926 · 78 mins · German

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Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Starring

Lili Damita, Albert Paulig, Carl Ebert, Hermann Picha, Paul Biensfeldt, Sophie Pagay

A woman fleeing her rich husband gives birth in a washerwoman’s home, dies, and the baby is left in taxi No 13. The birth record disappears in a tome. Sixteen years later a poor student buys the tome, finds the missing file and links the child—now cab driver Lili Damita—to the searching millionaire. He tracks the washerwoman, who confesses, while Lili is eventually adopted by the taxi driver and his wife.