A Romance of the Air (1918)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Bert Hall

Lieutenant Bert Hall

Edith Day

American girl

Florence Billings

Countess of Moravia

Stuart Holmes

Archduke of Moravia

Herbert Standing

Maj. William Thaw

Brian Darley

Gen. Montaigne

Tom Burrough

Col. DuBois

Joseph Lertora

Lt. Le Roy

Franklin B. Coates

Herbert Stair

Emma Campbell

Madame Dumont

Emil Hoch

Gen. von Hoch

Warner Richmond

Director & Crew

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