A Hero for a Night


1927

Film Details

Release Date
Dec 18, 1927
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Pictures
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5,711ft (6 reels)

Synopsis

Hiram Hastings, who drives a taxi at an eastern summer resort, takes a correspondence course in aviation and builds his own airplane, hoping to enter a race from New York to Europe. Samuel Sloan, a wealthy soap manufacturer, arrives with his daughter Mary, a trained nurse, and his confidential secretary, the last two secretly plotting to get Sloan's holdings. Hiram, infatuated with Mary, crashes a banquet in honor of a visiting French aviator and takes it upon himself to be speaker of the evening, though he is ejected. Mary learns of the plotting and with the aid of Hiram and his plane sets out for New York, but Hiram pilots them across the ocean into Russia and there makes a forced landing. The success of the flight, however, saves the Sloan fortune.

Film Details

Release Date
Dec 18, 1927
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Universal Pictures
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5,711ft (6 reels)

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