A Romance of the Air
Cast & Crew
Franklin B. Coates
Lieut. Bert Hall
Edith Day
Florence Billings
Stuart Holmes
Herbert Standing
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Lieutenant Bert Hall, an ace American flyer serving in World War I as a member of the French Lafayette Escadrille, is wounded in an aerial battle and forced to land behind enemy lines. Finding his German opponent dead, Hall exchanges uniforms with him and is taken to a German hospital to recover. There he meets his old Kentucky sweetheart, who was unable to escape Berlin when the war broke out. Accompanied by the Countess of Moravia, who claims sympathy with the Allied cause but is actually a German spy, they escape to France in a German plane. Through the countess' duplicity, Hall is accused of betraying the French government and sentenced to be shot, but his American lover uncovers evidence that saves him at the last moment.
Cast
Lieut. Bert Hall
Edith Day
Florence Billings
Stuart Holmes
Herbert Standing
Brian Darley
Tom Burrough
Joseph Lertora
Franklin B. Coates
Emma Campbell
Emil Hoch
Warner P. Richmond
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Lieut. Bert Hall and Major William Thaw were the only survivors of the original Lafayette Escadrille. Some sources credit Warner P. Richmond with the role of Herbert Stair. The film opened in New York on November 10, 1918 and was released to the state rights market by Crest Pictures Corp. In December 1918, Independent Sales Corp. released the film through Film Clearing House, Inc.
