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Taxi 13

Directed by	Marshall Neilan James Graham(2nd Unit)
Written by	Scott Darling (story, screenplay) George LeMaire (dialogue) Randolph Bartlett (titles) Garrett Graham (titles) Mildred Richter (titles)
Produced by	Joseph P. Kennedy
Starring	Chester Conklin
Cinematography	Philip Tannura
Edited by	Pandro S. Berman
Music by	Josiah Zuro
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America
Release date	November 18, 1928 (1928-11-18)
Running time	64 minutes; 7 reels
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie) (English Intertitles)

Taxi 13 is a 1928 sound part-talkie film comedy produced and distributed by Film Booking Offices of America and directed by Marshall Neilan. 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 RCA Photophone sound-on-film system. The film stars Chester Conklin in what is FBO's first film with a pre-recorded soundtrack.^[1]

Once thought lost, a copy evidently survives at Cineteca Nazionale, Rome.^[2]

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Critical reception

A review in Harrison's Reports said, "This is neither funny enojugh to be called a comedy nor serious enough to be called a drama.'^[3] Despite a few good points, it added, "But on the whole it is not a particularly good picture".^[3]

Cast

Chester Conklin as Angus Mactavish
Ethel Wales as Mrs. Mactavish
Martha Sleeper as Flora Mactavish
Hugh Trevor as Dan Regan
Lee Moran as Dennis Moran
Jerry Miley as Mason
Charles Byer as Berger

unbilled

Godfrey Craig as Mactavish Child
George Dunning as Mactavish Child
Louise Fazenda
Jackie Sturnberg as Mactavish Child
Billy Watson as Mactavish Child
Coy Watson as Mactavish Child
Delmar Watson as Mactavish Child
Gloria Watson as Mactavish Child
Harry Watson as Mactavish Child
Louise Watson as Mactavish Child
Vivian Watson as Mactavish Child

References

^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 published by The American Film Institute, c.1971
^ The Library of Congress Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Taxi 13
^ ^a ^b "'Taxi 13' (PT) -- with Chester Conklin". Harrison's Reports. January 19, 1929. p. 10. Retrieved June 20, 2022.

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Films directed by Marshall Neilan

The Deadly Battle at Hicksville (1914)
The Bottle Imp (1917)
The Silent Partner (1917)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
A Little Princess (1917)
Stella Maris (1918)
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918)
M'Liss (1918)
Hit-The-Trail Holliday (1918)
Heart of the Wilds (1918)
Out of a Clear Sky (1918)
Three Men and a Girl (1919)
The Unpardonable Sin (1919)
Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919)
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
In Old Kentucky (1919)
Don't Ever Marry (1920)
Go and Get It (1920)
Dinty (1920)
Bob Hampton of Placer (1921)
Bits of Life (1921)
The Lotus Eater (1921)
Penrod (1922)
Fools First (1922)
The Strangers' Banquet (1922)
Minnie (1922)
The Rendezvous (1923)
The Eternal Three (1923)
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1924)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1924)
The Sporting Venus (1925)
The Great Love (1925)
The Skyrocket (1926)
Mike (1926)
Diplomacy (1926)
Everybody's Acting (1926)
Wild Oats Lane (1926)
Venus of Venice (1927)
Her Wild Oat (1927)
Take Me Home (1928)
Taxi 13 (1928)
His Last Haul (1928)
Three-Ring Marriage (1928)
The Awful Truth (1929)
Tanned Legs (1929) (*uncredited)
The Vagabond Lover (1929)
Sweethearts on Parade (1930)
Social Register (1934)
Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)
This Is the Life (1935)
Swing It, Professor (1937)
Sing While You're Able (1937)
Thanks for Listening (1937)

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