The Aviator
Cast & Crew
Roy Del Ruth
Edward Everett Horton
Patsy Ruth Miller
Johnny Arthur
Lee Moran
Edward Martindel
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Wishing to assure the sale of a book of wartime experiences written by an anonymous aviator, Brooks, a publisher, and Brown, his publicist, decide to credit authorship to Robert Street, a highly successful writer. Though he detests aviation, knows nothing about the book in question, and finds the situation socially embarrassing, Street agrees to lend his name to the publication; he then retreats to a fashionable resort. Brown arrives, however, with Street's friends John and Grace Douglas, and he is thoroughly lionized; Street consents to pose for photographs in an airplane on the flying field. Frightened by the camera-flash, he accidentally starts the plane, creating an incredible demonstration landing in a haystack. A race is arranged between Street and Gaillard, a French flyer, and after a series of hair-raising and hilarious complications, Street gives up his pose for the charms of Grace.
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Cast
Edward Everett Horton
Patsy Ruth Miller
Johnny Arthur
Lee Moran
Edward Martindel
Armand Kaliz
Kewpie Morgan
Phillips Smalley
William Norton Bailey
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.
Notes
The same play was used as the source for the 1930 film, Going Wild and that film's French-language version L'aviateur.
