The Midnight Taxi

1928 film

September 1, 1928 (1928-09-01)

Running time

64 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSound (Part-Talkie)
(English Intertitles)

The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 American early sound part-talkie thriller picture from Warner Bros. directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello, and Myrna Loy. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system.

According to the Library of Congress, it has a completed copy of the film and found at British Film Institute's National Film and Television Archive.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cast

Antonio Moreno as Tony Driscoll
Helene Costello as Nan Parker
Myrna Loy as Gertie Fairfax
William Russell as Joseph Brant
Tommy Dugan as Al Corvini
Bobby Agnew as Jack Madigan
Pat Hartigan as Detective Blake
Jack Santoro as Lefty
William Hauber as Squint
Paul Kreuger as Dutch
Spencer Bell as Rastus

References

^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Midnight Taxi
^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Midnight Taxi at silentera.com
^ The Midnight Taxi at the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database

External links

The Midnight Taxi at IMDb
The Midnight Taxi at Vitaphone Varieties
Synopsis at AllMovie

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

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The Doorway to Hell (1931)
Little Caesar (1931)
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Life Begins (1932)
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The Mighty Barnum (1934)
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The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
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Writer

as Mark Canfield	The Desired Woman (1927) (story) Maybe It's Love (1930) Baby Face (1933) (story) Crack in the Mirror (1960)
as Melville Crossman	Tenderloin (story) (1928) State Street Sadie (story) (1928) Thanks a Million (story) (1935) A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) (1941) Thunder Birds (original story) (1942) China Girl (story) (1942) The Purple Heart (story) (1944)
as Gregory Rogers	Find Your Man (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) The Lighthouse by the Sea (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) (1925) The Midnight Taxi (story) (1928)
as self	A Broadway Butterfly (1925) Red Hot Tires (1925) Hogan's Alley (1925) The Caveman (scenario) (1926) The Little Irish Girl (adaptation) (1926) The Social Highwayman (1926) Footloose Widows (1926) Across the Pacific (adaptation) (1926) The Better 'Ole (screenplay) (1926) Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) (1927) Old San Francisco (1927) The First Auto (story) (1927) Good Time Charley (story) (1927) Noah's Ark (story) (1928) My Man (story) (1928) Hardboiled Rose (story) (1929) Madonna of Avenue A (story) (1929) Say It with Songs (story) (1929) The Life of the Party (1930) Little Caesar (story – uncredited) (1931) The Dark Horse (story) (1932) Lady Killer (story – uncredited) (1933) Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer – uncredited) (1935) G Men (story) (1935) This Is My Affair (story – uncredited) (1937) Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer – uncredited) (1938) The Great Profile (story – uncredited) (1940) Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)

People

Virginia Fox (wife)
Richard D. Zanuck (son)
Dean Zanuck (grandson)

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