Stolen Identity

Toni Sponer drives a taxi in Vienna. All he wants is to get to America. One night he is waiting for a fare. The fare is an American businessman. The man is killed before he reaches the cab. The killer is a well known pianist. He believes the man was involved with his wife. Toni takes the dead man’s papers. He starts living under that name. The new identity is his way to America. On the road he meets Karen, the dead man’s wife. At first she takes him for the killer. Toni convinces her he is innocent and the two grow close. They try to leave the country together, with the pianist after them. The shooting was done in Vienna. A German version was made on the same sets, sharing most of the cast. Donald Buka and Joan Camden appear in the eighty eight minute film, an Austrian and American production Gunther von Fritsch finished in 1953.