The Flying Ace
A veteran World War I fighter pilot returns home a war hero and immediately regains his former job as a railroad company detective. His first case: recover a stolen satchel filled with $25,000 of company payroll, locate a missing employee, and capture a gang of railroad thieves.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This airplane mystery was inspired by the story of Bessie Coleman, the first Native American/African-American woman to receive a pilots license. It follows a pilot who returns a hero from World War I, but finds a criminal mystery in his home town. No contemporary reviews appear to have survived, though modern audiences find the film to be more than it appears on the surface.
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The Flying Ace (1926) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Richard E. Norman
- Starring
- Laurence Criner, Kathryn Boyd, Boise De Legge, Harold Platts, Lions Daniels, George Colvin, Sam Jordan, R.L. Brown
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