The Girl in the Taxi

The Girl in the Taxi

70 mins | Comedy, Music | Sept. 2, 1937

In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.

The Girl in the Taxi

70 mins | Comedy, Music | Sept. 2, 1937

The Girl in the Taxi
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
Producers British Unity Pictures
Original title The Girl in the Taxi
Directors André Berthomieu
Writers Frank Eyton, Austin Melford, Arthur Wimperis

Cast

Frances Day

as Suzanne Pommarel

Henri Garat

as René Boislurette

Lawrence Grossmith

as Baron des Aubrais

Jean Gillie

as Jacqueline

Mackenzie Ward

as Hubert

John Deverell

as Emile Pomarel

Helen Haye

as Delphine

Ben Field

as Dominique

Albert Whelan

as Alexis

Laurence Hanray

as Charencey

Joan Kemp-Welch

as Suzanne Dupont

Arthur Hambling

as Senior Police Officer (uncredited)