Taxi at Midnight

{{short description|1929 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Taxi at Midnight | image = Taxi at Midnight.jpg | caption = | director = [[Harry Piel]] | producer = Harry Piel | writer = [[Robert Liebmann]] | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Harry Piel|[[Betty Bird]]|[[Philipp Manning]]|[[Albert Paulig]]}} | music = | editing = | cinematography = {{ubl|[[Ewald Daub]]|[[Herbert Körner]]}} | studio = Ariel Film | distributor = [[Deutsches Lichtspiel-Syndikat]] | released = {{Film date|1929|03|15|df=yes}} | runtime = 122 minutes | country = Germany | language = {{ubl|[[Silent film|Silent]]|German [[intertitles]]}} | budget = | gross = }} '''''Taxi at Midnight''''' (German: '''''Die Mitternachtstaxe''''') is a 1929 [[Cinema of Germany|German]] [[silent film|silent]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Harry Piel]] and starring Piel, [[Betty Bird]] and [[Philipp Manning]].<ref>Prawer p.83</ref> It was shot at the [[Staaken Studios|Staaken]] and [[Grunewald (locality)|Grunewald]] Studios in [[Berlin]]. The film's [[art direction]] was by [[Fritz Maurischat]] and [[Max Knaake]].

==Synopsis== Harry Pattler is a [[law student]] who works as a late-night [[taxi driver]] in order to pay for his studies. He argues with [[Professor]] Olten over how reliable [[circumstantial evidence]] can be in court. To prove his point he begins to investigate the background of an ongoing case against a man who faces conviction for [[murder]] on purely circumstantial evidence. Harry is able to prove that not only is the man not a murderer, his supposed victim is still alive.

==Cast== * [[Harry Piel]] as Harry Pattler * [[Betty Bird]] as Lilly * [[Philipp Manning]] as Prof. Dr. Olten * [[Albert Paulig]] as Direktor Cremer * [[Hans Sanden]] as Knackermaxe * [[Hermann Böttcher]] as Kommissar Tenner * [[Bruno Ziener]] as W.S. Pinkus * [[Aruth Wartan]] as Martini * [[Maria Asti]] as Mimi * [[Steffie Vida]] as Bardame * [[Jaria Kirsanoff]] as Bardame * [[El' Dura]] as Bardame * [[Eva Schmid-Kayser]] as Bardame * [[Hedy Meyer-Seebohn]] as Bardame * [[Wolfgang von Schwindt]] as Mann im Smoking * [[Georg Schmieter]] as Mann im Smoking * [[Charles Francois (actor)|Charles Francois]] as Mann im Smoking * [[Henry Bender]] as Erster Wachtmeister * [[Julius Falkenstein]] as Zweiter Wachtmeister * [[Georg John]] as Dritter Wachtmeister * Charly Berger as Motorradfahrer

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Prawer, S.S. ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0020178}}

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