Name: Flying Pat
Released: 1920
Cast: Dorothy Gish, James Rennie, Morgan Wallace, Harold Vizard, William Black

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Dec 5, 1920

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

New Art Film Co.

Distribution Company

Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount Pictures

Country

United States

Synopsis

Flapper Patricia Van Nuys becomes "flying Pat" when she follows in the path of her aviator husband Robert and decides to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane. Captain Endicott, an ace pilot and a friend of Robert, offers to teach her to fly. One day, while practicing, their plane takes a nose dive and crashes, but luckily the fliers emerge unscathed, taking refuge in a roadhouse. Subsequently, Pat's husband becomes so outraged at his wife's intimacy with Endicott that Pat, indignant at his reaction, resolves to become independent. That night she slips away and boards a train for distant parts. Endicott also boards the train and when they are seen by a reporter for a gossip sheet, Robert reads of his wife's exploits in the daily newspaper. Meanwhile, Pat has stolen home penitently. Disguised as a cook in her own kitchen, she eludes detection until Endicott comes to the house just as Robert starts gunning for him. After a series of comic incidents, matters are explained and Pat and Robert reconcile.