Name: The Firefly of France
Released: 1918
Cast: Wallace Reid, Ann Little, Charles Ogle, Raymond Hatton, Winter Hall

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Jun 23, 1918

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Famous Players-Lasky Corp.

Distribution Company

Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount Pictures

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the novel The Firefly of France by Marion Polk Angellotti (New York, 1918).

Synopsis

Devereux Bayne, a wealthy young American, resolves to fight with the French Aviation Corps during World War I. En route to Europe he meets the beautiful Esme Falconer and a man named Jenkins, who tells him that she is a German spy. Even though Esme will not divulge the facts of her mission to Devereux, he refuses to believe she is a spy and follows her to a small French inn. During the night, her chauffeur is killed, so Devereux takes his place and drives her to the Falconer chateau, followed closely by Jenkins and his men. There Jenkins reveals that he is really Von Blenheim, a German agent, and demands that Esme procure for him the plans which had been carried by her brother-in-law, a missing aviator known as "the Firefly." Esme and Devereux escape to the chamber in which the Firefly is hiding, and while the Frenchman and his sister escape, the American turns over a fake set of documents to Von Blenheim. The Germans drive Devereux towards enemy lines, but he signals the French forces and the spies are captured. He is wounded in the struggle, but Esme lovingly ministers to him until he is well.